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Scotland’s giant pandas are a big pair of divas

I’ll be glad to see the backs of those two slackers Tian Tian and Yang Guang who are returning to China after a 10-year residency at Edinburgh Zoo....

02.12.2023 3

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Jacqueline Wake Young

David Tennant stars in Dr Who specials and fox steals show in Aberdeen

One advantage of being mum to a wily schoolkid is that I know a bribe when I see one. So when Jeremy Hunt says: “I’m going to cut National...

25.11.2023 6

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World’s loneliest sheep gets new home and so too does one lonely former PM

It’s been one dramatic rescue after another. First, the world’s loneliest sheep was winched up a cliff after spending years alone on a rocky...

18.11.2023 6

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A chat with an islander is a reminder to notice the natural world again

I’ll have to stop going to the big Tesco. Any supermarket that requires binoculars and a stepladder to see the cereal aisle is too much to take on...

11.11.2023 7

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Could futuristic Airlander 10 really be the future of travel for Highlands and Islands?

Is it weird that I spent most of my friend’s Halloween party interrogating an air hostess between the buffet table and the pop-up bar? She didn’t...

04.11.2023 7

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Lady Carbisdale in raunchy books mix-up and M&S provides food for thought

You know how it is, one minute you’re restoring a castle in Sutherland and the next you’re being mistaken for an erotic fiction writer in North...

28.10.2023 4

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The events in Israel and Gaza reach all the way to Scottish shores

Being married to an Irish poet has its joys as well as its challenges. I’m sure Yeats’s missus said at some point: “I couldn’t give a...

14.10.2023 3

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Aberdeen and Highlands can teach Sunak something about aspiration

I’ve been meaning to start watching that show Stranger Things but then I saw some of the Conservative Party Conference and figured it’s probably...

07.10.2023 5

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Jacqueline Wake Young: Aberdeen police pups could teach Joe Biden’s dog how to behave

There has been an emphasis on very old things in recent days, with the Skye ferry crossing, whisky from the 1800s and Joe Biden all making the...

30.09.2023 5

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Jacqueline Wake Young: Stonehaven dog and Sutherland castle owner set fine examples

I went swimming, I went to the gym, I went on several long walks – and I’ve still been put to shame by a cocker spaniel. I thought my own daft dog...

23.09.2023 7

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Elgin roundabout proposal is more interesting than TV

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16.09.2023 5

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Jacqueline Wake Young: Elgin roundabout proposal is more interesting than TV

I might give up television and just start watching a roundabout in Elgin. I can’t face more adverts for life insurance or collectible gold coins and...

16.09.2023 5

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Flights disrupted and mountain rescuer takes the school bus

I wouldn’t want to be an air traffic controller’s manicurist. Can you imagine what state their nails must be in? I chewed mine down to nothing on...

02.09.2023 6

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What A Week: Nessie’s hiding out of sight and we can’t see Taylor Swift

Having failed spectacularly to secure Taylor Swift tickets for my tweenage Swiftie I know what it’s like to get into someone’s bad books. In my...

27.08.2023 5

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Aberdeen letters on the move and Trump course suits actor to a tee

A former editor of mine, Alan Cochrane or “Cockers” to his pals, used to tell funny stories about the hot metal days of newspapers when lines of...

19.08.2023 6

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Driving through ‘crystal maze’ in Aberdeen and a trip into space

Asylum-seekers have been doing reviews of the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset but they probably won’t appear on TripAdvisor. There isn’t a section...

12.08.2023 7

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Let’s hope the Farage v Coutts joke isn’t on us

Could Ricky Gervais spark a global financial crisis? Spoiler alert, probably not, but let’s just run with it anyway because for the second week in a...

29.07.2023 3

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What A Week: Farage sparks banking furore but money isn’t everything

It’s hard to shed a tear for someone who is upset because a posh bank has closed their account and it’s even harder when that person is Nigel...

22.07.2023 2

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What A Week: Farage sparks banking furore but money isn’t everything

It’s hard to shed a tear for someone who is upset because a posh bank has closed their account and it’s even harder when that person is Nigel...

22.07.2023 3

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What A Week: Retrievers stage get together and fur flies in Hollywood

If I was ever in a situation where the victim gets to confront their attacker I’d be sitting opposite a seagull. Two seagulls in fact, one that...

15.07.2023 4

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What A Week: The Granite Mile reimagined and mutant midges the movie

Evil benches. It’s a thing. An architectural thing to be exact and you’ll likely have encountered them without knowing their nickname, at...

08.07.2023 4

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What A Week: Prince William tackles homelessness and a hare hops down to harbour

A lorry-load of 6ft bunnies just went past the window and that almost never happens. I live in a strange town, it’s an odd mixture of ordinary and...

01.07.2023 3

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A rare sighting of Nessie but no sign of a parking space at ARI

Boris Johnson has lost his work pass. Big wow, I do that all the time. Mind you, mine’s usually in the car and not gone forever as a result of a...

24.06.2023 5

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What a week: Prince Harry’s evidence at hacking trial, inflation to remain sticky and costly AR headsets

The last time I heard the words “sticky” and “inflation” in the same sentence was after I hired a bouncy castle and a candy-floss station for...

10.06.2023 5

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What A Week: Fresh threat to humanity and an AI art exhibition

You wait ages for an existential crisis and then three come along at once. Nukes and climate change were the biggies until Tuesday when it was...

03.06.2023 6

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