Failed £4 million visitor centre in Aberdeenshire on market for just £150,000
Aberdeenshire Council pulled funding from the project in 2011 - forcing it to close its doors.
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Accident repair centre agrees £1 million contract to lease Aberdeen industrial unit
The firm is the first tenant at the joint venture and has agreed a ten year deal.
Inside Forres’ former Bank of Scotland midway through its transformation into a whisky ‘watering hole’
The Press and Journal was given exclusive access inside the former Bank of Scotland which shut down in 2022.
No shops, more than two years late and a bankrupt developer: The saga of how the St Giles Centre in Elgin finally opened
The St Giles Centre in Elgin faced several challenges just to get the doors open in 1991.
Gordon & MacPhail boss explains profits plunge of £13 million for Elgin whisky producer
Chief executive Phillip White is confident for the future despite a "tough" second half of the last financial year.
Inverness planning: Phone boxes to be replaced by ‘street hubs’ with chargers and bid for city centre holiday lets
The latest planning update is here.
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Loch Ness site bought for £15 million to become new luxury lodge development
30-year-old Aberdonian takes charge of million-pound manufacturing firm
Buckie funeral director’s big plan for town’s Church of Christ building
YiaYias Little Kitchen: a culinary journey from Greece to Inverness (via Germany)
Inquiry into controversial Coul Links golf course in Sutherland begins
Aberdeen law firm Ledingham Chalmers makes leadership change after record turnover
How The Little Lunchbox owner has adapted to seismic shift of Elgin footfall to keep tiny takeaway thriving
How relocating to Highlands with no job led to start of Inverness marketing firm
Decision on Elgin Town Hall transformation and work approved at town centre hotel
Christmas Day dinner Inverness 2024: where to eat out (or have the feast brought to you)
Former Johnston Carmichael headquarters in Elgin sells for FIVE TIMES the guide price at auction
Apache blames windfall tax for planned North Sea exit
Housebuilder acquires unfinished Stewart Milne Aberdeen site
How a former nurse with a passion for cooking is bringing a taste of Spain to Elgin
Kirstie Waterston: My 5 favourite shops and businesses in Inverurie’s booming town centre and why
Codona’s boss on ‘rollercoaster’ year as profits dip by £1m
Aberdeen Indian restaurant building up for auction with £225,000 price tag
North Sea taskforce launched to safeguard ‘tens of thousands of jobs’
Aberdeenshire ice cream firm Mackie’s generates enough green power for 41,000 homes
Banchory’s million-pound spinal clinic becomes employee-owned
Walrus and Corkscrew: how a ‘retirement project’ is keeping this Inverness wine bar owner as busy as ever
Ross-shire whisky maker to return 100,000th oyster to previously extinct Highland reef
North-east construction industry stalwart Elaine Donald gets special honour
Westhill firm Ashtead Technology adds to ‘hidden secret’ success with new senior appointment
