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Dundee-based local authority boss Angela Scott will be tasked with steering the institution through its deep financial crisis.

The cocker spaniel was ripped from the woman's grasp by a hulking animal in a shocking cemetery incident that left her covered in blood

Robert Ean McLeod, 43, was killed after being struck on the head by a metal ring feeder, a fatal accident inquiry has found.

Formerly Queen Street Church of Scotland, minister David Gibson says a "church staying a church is worth celebrating."

Fraser Newman, 30 came to the attention of police when a phone containing child-abuse material connected to the internet at a property he was living at in Hardgate, Aberdeen.

The 50-year-old has been reported to the procurator fiscal.

Meanwhile, contamination fears over a former gasworks site in Laurencekirk could scupper plans for some new workshops, and the owners of one of the north-east's most famous homes plot upgrades to their vast estate.

Crews have now left the scene.