Rats, mice and insects among nasties found crawling around Highland and Grampian NHS buildings
A list of horrors is contained in details of call-outs across the NHS totalling millions of pounds in recent years.
Scottish politics
More spent on meals for Inverness prisoners than NHS Highland patients
Meals for prisoners at HMP Inverness cost more than £4 a day while around £3 is spent on patients recuperating in NHS Highland hospitals.
The SNP offered cash for island tunnels – is it time to get digging?
Shetland and Orkney are thinking about it but coastal communities all over Scotland warn it’s a drop in the ocean where ferries are needed now.
Rural doctors scheme recruits just two GPs for the north of Scotland
Four times as many students left to take up roles in England than stayed to work as rural GPs across the whole of the north of Scotland.
Cairngorm railway closure one year into ‘worst case scenario’ – what happens next?
The funicular near Aviemore has been closed for years, and each winter is looking more like “Groundhog Day” for the “attraction”.
Pupils learning in ‘poor’ Moray and Highland school buildings in shocking rural divide
Nearly 100 schools across the region are ranked poorly according to official statistics.
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Ramsay Jones: New choice for Scottish voters
Environmental charities back action to control deer numbers
Davidson accused of breaking Holyrood rules
As Theresa May heads for Scotland: She writes a message for The P&J
MSP says delay to water pipeline upgrade “an insult to the community”
VIDEO: ‘Will it be plain sailing for the Tories at the general election? I’m not so sure…’
Alert after suspected anthrax package sent to council offices in Angus
North-east MP’s bill receives royal assent
Teacher vacancies in Aberdeen hit all time high… And might not be resolved until 2020
Angus Robertson: This election will be about standing up for Scotland
Calls for Scotland to abandon the EU Common Fisheries Policy
Review may not make a difference to business rates bills
REVEALED: How much additional support needs have been cut in Scotland
Calls for joint emergency service control room for Shetland
SNP MPs accused of hypocrisy for signing fishing pledge
Test for Sturgeon will be matching 2015 performance, says Mundell
SNP chiefs to hand-pick candidates to fight McGarry and Thomson seats
Keith Brown to unveil government’s infrastructure investment plan during Inverurie visit
Aberdeen Tories under fire for lack of local manifesto
Highland MSP said she met defence secretary to discuss Fort George… When she had actually met his junior
Whiteford facing Tory candidate she knows from school days at General Election
Highland MSP reprimanded by First Minister for breaking embargo on HIE report
Carmichael confirmed as Lib Dem Orkney and Shetland candidate
