A £3 MILLION rescue deal has saved an historic 24-room Scottish boutique hotel after it entered administration earlier this year Source

EDINBURGH Airport has vowed to look into refurbishing its arrivals hall following complaints that its interior looks like “corrugated iron and wire” … Source

Major high street retailer Poundland has announced the closure of another Scottish location. Source

Almost 500 people were arrested in London yesterday for holding placards supporting ‘Palestine Action’ which the UK government has declared a ‘terrorist organisation’ despite it never harming anyone. In theory, anyone holding such a placard could receive up to 14 years in prison.  Those arrested at that ‘Defend our Juries’ protest included folk who had […] Source

“Gordon Brown warns child poverty in Scotland is getting ‘worse every day’ as he calls for UK Government action” … Source

A nervous wait has ended in exam day joy for four Moray pupils, who have spoken to The Northern Scot about how they got on. …

I don’t have any time for Rory or Alastair Campbell but this is worth watching as they interact with Gary Stevenson and his analysis (you can zip past “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”): Source

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been confirmed at a farm near Banff. …

School wants musicians across Moray to have access to the instruments. …

The Times has put up no less than six of its finest journalists to write about the calamity that is Kate Forbes standing down, next year. No doubt there will be more to come, but as it stands Laura Paterson (‘Kate Forbes, the rising star who couldn’t land the SNP leadership‘), Michael Glackin (‘SNP’s last […] Source

AN Edinburgh pub is running a contest for an all-expenses-paid holiday to celebrate the premise’s expansion. Source

PLANS for an AI date centre campus in the Forth Valley have been proposed, as developers hope the project could create more than 1500 jobs … Source