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Gritters will be out on the city’s main roads tonight for the first time this winter with temperatures predicted to plunge to below 0C.
The forecast is for road temperatures to get to -0.9C with a risk of ice and hoar frost at 2am so Aberdeen City Council gritters will be out treating the…
Night buses to key destinations across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire are to be reintroduced this weekend by Aberdeen City Council – and they’ll be free of charge.
After a tendering process, the Council has contracted the 10 routes out to First Bus which will operate them from the city centre…
Secondary school pupils have been making their views known about Phase 2 of Aberdeen City Council’s budget consultation 2025/26 thanks to engagement sessions delivered by the Aberdeen Youth Movement (AYM).
Phase 2 provides additional proposed savings options and invites…
About 11,500 tonnes of salt, 24 road gritters, 21 pavement gritters, and about 180 Council staff are ready to grit Aberdeen’s priority roads and pavements this winter.
The gritting team are often travelling to work on untreated roads to ensure the squad of gritter vehicles are treating the…
Excellent standards of care which make a difference have been achieved by Bon Accord Care in a 12-month period, a report to an Aberdeen City Council committee said.
The praise for Bon Accord Care staff came in an annual report which highlighted the positive impact of Arm’s Length…
More than 360,000 people attended more than 700 performances at Aberdeen Performing Arts (APA) venues in the last financial year.
APA – which operates venues including His Majesty’s Theatre, The Music Hall, and The Lemon Tree - delivered a number of projects which demonstrated significant…
More than 1.4million people took part in activities at Sport Aberdeen venues in a 12-month period, an Aberdeen City Council committee was told.
The organisation also hosted 179 events including national and international competitions and exceeded targets in several key performance areas,…
Grants worth more than £49.8million were awarded to organisations by Aberdeen City Council in the last financial year.
The financial support was given to 124 organisations across the city, 138 grant awards were under £25,000, and 23 organisations received grants worth a total value of £100…
Aberdeen's city centre will be filled with festive cheer as Christmas celebrations return next week.
…As part of a series of planned visits, members of the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee have been visiting communities and organisations supporting them.
So far this year, members have been to Aberdeen Cyrenians and Cairncry Community Centre.
Aberdeen Cyrenians is a…
Aberdeen Football Club player Angus MacDonald and Aberdeen FC Community Trust (AFCCT) visited pupils at Northfield Academy to deliver refurbished football boots on Thursday 31 October. The visit was a part of a CIF initiative called Re-Kicks that aims to provide ‘free kicks’ to budding young…
Part of the Castlegate is to have a temporary surface installed in the next few weeks which will ensure the area will be safer.
The current flagstones would have a significant cost to fully repair– more than £1.5milion - which would then likely need changed anyway due to the major…