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• Man charged after sexual assault in Aberdeenshire village

  The incident took place in the Maud area on Wednesday.

• Exclusive: £3.2m Aberdeen care home still closed four years after death of man while ‘rooms too hot to sleep in’

  VSA moved residents out of the £3.2m Abergeldie House on Holburn Street in the days after a 56-year-old took ill during a heatwave.

• What’s it like inside Aberdeen Rapid Transit bus? I have a look as bosses reveal next steps for multi-million-pound project

  We had a glimpse inside an example Aberdeen Rapid Transit vehicle as we found out more about how it could transform transport in the north-east.

• Driver, 21, to stand trial after popular Aberdeen pensioner killed in road tragedy

  Taaneer Niazi is accused of causing death by dangerous driving after he allegedly hit Thomas Pates in Aberdeen in 2024.

• Video: Ultra rare bird spotted in Aberdeenshire garden

  The chances of seeing an albino sparrow is believed to be around one in 30,000 to one in several hundred thousand.

• Bob Keiller: ‘Taxi drivers made council meeting hugely intimidating — after firestorm of online abuse’

  Those arguing for change in licensing rules, feared by Aberdeen taxi chiefs as the beginning of Uber "flooding" their trade with too many drivers, faced jeering and yelling at the Town House.

• Alness man jailed following conviction for unlawful sex with teens

  Terence Urquhart, who was aged between 17 and 20 at the time of his crimes, was convicted last month of a series of historic sex offences that involving girls as young as 13.

• Man charged after ‘abhorrent’ vandalism to former M&S store in Aberdeen

  The man was subsequently charged with several other offences.

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