Aberdeen City news

• Coronavirus: 'We will accept the risks for full-time school'

  21-06-2020 10:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Blended learning or scrapping the 2m rule? Some parents tell BBC Scotland what they want to happen.
  
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• Aberdeen students featured in national widening access campaign

  15-04-2024 16:18 via abdn.ac.uk
  The extraordinary stories of students who entered higher education from a non-traditional route are being highlighted in a new national campaign by Universities Scotland.
  
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• Former teacher jailed for abusing pupils

  15-04-2024 14:39 via bbc.com
  
  Stephen Tait, 41, is sentenced to two-and-a-half years for charges involving young boys in Shetland.
  
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• In pictures: Scotland's latest avalanche season

  15-04-2024 13:02 via bbc.com
  
  The Scottish Avalanche Information Service has recorded a provisional figure of 169 avalanches.
  
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• Union claims striking staff cannot 'speak freely'

  15-04-2024 12:50 via bbc.com
  
  About 50 IES Callenberg staff are walking out for three days in a dispute over pay and conditions.
  
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• Police name man who died in Shetland crash

  13-04-2024 11:01 via bbc.com
  
  25-year-old Fraser Smith from the Boddam area in Shetland was pronounced dead at the scene.
  
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• Fifteen jobs saved as century-old machinery firm sold

  12-04-2024 16:53 via bbc.com
  
  Balgownie Ltd and Balgownie Rentals - which traded for 117 years- entered administration in March.
  
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• Lost plastic duck washes up in Orkney after 18 years

  11-04-2024 15:38 via bbc.com
  
  The duck was one of 150,000 released into a Dublin river as part of a world record attempt.
  
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• Man jailed for raping women in Shetland and Orkney

  11-04-2024 14:45 via bbc.com
  
  Sean Casey, 69, carried out offences including rapes in Shetland and Orkney between 1984 and 2016.
  
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• Research Facilities Showcase opens the door to academic technology and expertise for local businesse

  11-04-2024 12:58 via abdn.ac.uk
  Businesses will be able to engage with more than 20 world class research facilities offered by the University of Aberdeen during an information-sharing event on April 19.
  
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• Academic awarded more than £2million to study rapid evolution in Scottish seabird populations

  11-04-2024 12:13 via abdn.ac.uk
  A University of Aberdeen scientist has been awarded EUR2.5million by the European Research Council (ERC) to lead a team in predicting how seabird populations on the east coast of Scotland will respond to increasingly extreme seasonal weather conditions.
  
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• Scottish seabird migration study secures support

  11-04-2024 12:09 via bbc.com
  
  European funding is awarded to the Aberdeen University-led study of the effect of climate change.
  
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• Aberdeen researchers share climate change, fish and North Sea energy insights at global summit

  11-04-2024 10:40 via abdn.ac.uk
  The sustainable use of our oceans comes under the spotlight in Norway this week with Aberdeen researchers stepping onto the global stage to share their insights.
  
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• Wet weather devastating for lambing, farmers say

  11-04-2024 07:34 via bbc.com
  
  Farmers say heavy rainfall has affected crops and means that a lot of lambs will be lost to hypothermia.
  
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• Aberdeen close in on Elfsborg head coach Thelin

  10-04-2024 19:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aberdeen are closing in on the appointment of Elfsborg head coach Jimmy Thelin as their new manager.
  
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• Scotland's VAR 'not fit for purpose' - Aberdeen

  10-04-2024 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aberdeen brand Scotland's version of VAR as "not suitable for purpose" after "the Hawkeye system failed" against Livingston on Saturday.
  
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• Mother jailed after baby son's drug-related death

  10-04-2024 17:28 via bbc.com
  
  The court heard Aberdeenshire drug dealer Amy Beck's home was 'polluted' with drugs.
  
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• Man dies after being seriously hurt in work accident

  10-04-2024 15:05 via bbc.com
  
  The incident happened in Finstown, near building merchant Allans Of Gillock, on Friday.
  
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• Former NHS worker jailed for poisoning young boy

  09-04-2024 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tracy Menhinick gave the child "industrial" amounts of laxative, causing his growth to be stunted.
  
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• New timescales given for delayed hospital projects

  09-04-2024 12:15 via bbc.com
  
  The delayed Anchor cancer centre will open this winter and Baird family hospital in summer 2025.
  
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• Woman jailed after harming child with laxatives in Aberdeen

  09-04-2024 12:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Tracy Menhinick, 52, ‘wilfully’ ill-treated the boy with medication that affected his developmentA woman convicted of harming a child with laxatives, which affected his development, has been jailed for seven years.Tracy Menhinick, 52, was found guilty of “wilfully” ill-treating the child in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health on various occasions over the course of three years from 2014. Continue reading...
  
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• Royal composer elected to RSE

  09-04-2024 10:16 via abdn.ac.uk
  Professor Paul Mealor, Professor of Composition at the University of Aberdeen, has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's (RSE) Fellowship.
  
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• Eclipse seen in Scotland but rest of UK misses out

  09-04-2024 08:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cloudy skies meant most in the UK were not able to view the phenomenon.
  
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• Wedding scammer conned guests out of thousands

  08-04-2024 13:53 via bbc.com
  
  Bride Elaine Walker found out just before flying to Thailand that travel had not been booked.
  
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• Teen paddleboarders rescued at sea in Storm Kathleen

  07-04-2024 12:36 via bbc.com
  
  The RNLI said a lifeboat crew recovered "very cold and relieved youngsters" from the water.
  
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• Teen paddleboaders rescued at sea in Storm Kathleen

  07-04-2024 12:36 via bbc.com
  
  The RNLI said a lifeboat crew recovered "very cold and relieved youngsters" from the water.
  
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• Livi boost slim survival hopes in drab Aberdeen draw

  06-04-2024 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Livingston marginally increase their slim hopes of Scottish Premiership survival by grinding out a drab goalless draw with Aberdeen.
  
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• Snow, rain and wind warnings ahead of Storm Kathleen

  05-04-2024 12:00 via bbc.com
  
  People have been urged to prepare for flooding, travel disruption and possible power cuts this weekend.
  
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• Raising awareness of prostate cancer worldwide vital as cases expected to double by 2040

  05-04-2024 09:46 via abdn.ac.uk
  The University of Aberdeen's Chair in Urological Surgery has contributed to new report which predicts cases of prostate cancer will double by 2040, with the highest increase in cases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
  
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• Warnock on decision to leave Aberdeen - gossip

  05-04-2024 09:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Neil Warnock on his short stay at Pittodrie, Motherwell investor revealed and pundits on big Old Firm derby...
  
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