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Independence Referendum date set
March 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The First Minister announced in Holyrood today that the date for the referendum on Scottish independence will be 18 September 2014. The pro independence group Yes Scotland were ready and waiting with their placards in Aberdeen! Read More →
Culture and Entertainment
Film preview – Searching for Sugar Man
July 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
We are willing to bet you that you will come out of the cinema after watching this film and head straight for the nearest music store, or download the music immediately from iTunes. The film, Searching for Sugar Man, is a documentary, but having already won the Special Jury Prize and the World Cinema Audience Award for Documentary at this year’s Sundance Festival, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, as well as winning second place at the Tribeca Festival, you know that it has to be special. And it is. The story is true of course, but it is one which is barely believable, even when... [Read the full story]
Music
Northlight brightens the way for future music making
December 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment
RSNO’s recent North East community project serves as benchmark for success A community music project involving participants from the North East of Scotland will be used as a benchmark for success by Scotland’s national symphony orchestra. Over eight months, enthusiastic participants of all ages and abilities collaborated with British composer Cecilia McDowall, writer Alan Spence and musicians from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) in producing a substantial work for chorus and orchestra. The resulting composition, Northlight, took its inspiration from the geography and communities... [Read the full story]
Aberdeen City Council
Councils use technology to keep residents on the move
January 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
As forecasters predict plummeting temperatures across Scotland, three Scottish local authorities have opened up data to technology companies to improve services for commuters and councils services to help keep citizens on the move and local services functioning. Glasgow City Council, along with a collaboration between Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils, received funding from independent innovation foundation, Nesta, to work with technology partners to open up data they hold to improve travel in poor weather. Glasgow City Council in partnership with IRISS, has developed Glasgow Gritting which... [Read the full story]
Business
Port of Ardersier to become offshore wind hub
January 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The Port of Ardersier on Scotland’s Moray Firth, once the centre of the early oil industry, has today moved centre stage as one of the key manufacturing and port facilities for the UK’s fast-growing offshore wind sector. Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond today announced a memorandum of understanding between Highland and Islands Enterprise and the Port of Ardersier which recognises the port’s capacity to become a major UK manufacturing, construction and installation hub. With 138 hectares (340 acres) of vacant land and a deep water quay, the former oil rig fabrication... [Read the full story]
What's On
His Majesty’s Theatre – Hormonal Housewives
October 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Following last year’s sell-out tour, Carol Smillie once again leads the cast in the hilarious comedy Hormonal Housewives, which embarks upon a limited tour of selected venues in Scotland in November 2011. “Carol Smillie is a beautiful mover and a good actress…Julie Coombe has moments of comic genius.” The Scotsman Join Carol Smillie and friends in an evening of excessive laughter as they battle against weight gain, weight loss, mood swings, wine, PMS, men, going to the gym, men, waxing, stretch marks, men, chocolate, upper-lip hair, chocolate, men, chocolate…and all of... [Read the full story]
Aberdeen City Council
Councils use technology to keep residents on the move
As forecasters predict plummeting temperatures across Scotland, three Scottish local authorities have opened up data to technology companies to improve services for commuters and councils services to help keep citizens on the move and local services functioning. Glasgow City Council, along with a collaboration between Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire... Read more of this article
Aberdeen City Council meets 13 June 2012
The next meeting of Aberdeen City Council will take place on 13 June 2012 at 10.30. You can read the whole agenda here. Part of what is under discussion are the plans to turn Aberdeen into a City of Culture in 2017 which is estimated to cost just under £500,000 in salaries for the BID team alone. One other part of the business being discussed by the... Read more of this article
MSP congratulates Council on living wage move
Kevin Stewart, SNP MSP for Aberdeen Central, has this week welcomed the City of Aberdeen Council on their introduction of the living wage of £7.20 per hour. This comes at the end of a week where the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Regeneration Committee declared that they broadly support the living wage campaign to be rolled out across... Read more of this article
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