Aberdeen set to honour Armed Forces past and present

Crowds will line Union Street as Aberdeen welcomes more than 1,000 serving, veteran and cadet force personnel when they parade through the city centre to mark Armed Forces Day.

The City of Aberdeen will welcome more than 1,000…

Two commemorative plaques are to be erected after committee approval (Tuesday 21 June) – one to mark a woman who was a doctor, social welfare pioneer and politician and the other one to acknowledge the history of a structure in Old Aberdeen.

Aberdeen City Council’s City growth and Resources committee  noted an update on the progress of the delivery of the Bus Partnership Fund projects (Tuesday 21 June).

The Bus Partnership Fund was launched to enable local transport…

Work on the central section of Union Street between its junction with Union Terrace and Market Street with the installation of a new bus gate is to be finished tomorrow.

Cameras have been placed at…

A plan for the future delivery of employability services in Aberdeen has been considered by Councillors. 

The Local Employability Partnership (LEP) Delivery and Action Plan sets out a range of actions and priorities defined by LEP members to support people into employment. …

The leases of the Inchgarth, Loirston Annexe, and Old Torry Community Centres have been extended after the move was approved at Aberdeen City Council’s City Growth and Resources Committee yesterday. 

Councillors agreed the 10-year-term for the leased community centres be extended to…

Major works to improve roads, pavements, bridges, streetlights, flooding measures, and encouraging more people to walk and cycle around Aberdeen were today unanimously approved at committee.

Major capital projects and programmes are to be reviewed and reprofiled with a risk of being potentially delayed due to external factors in the construction trade’s supply chain, a committee unanimously agreed today.

A report is to be…

Aberdeen City Libraries’ summer reading challenge returns this week and the city’s readers are being asked to help Library Bear travel the Globe and home again before the end of the Summer as part of Aberdeen Reads: The World Tour!…

Opportunities to provide paid six-month work experience placements will be outlined during at a Business Booster event later this week.

Aberdeen City Council has secured £1.15m to support people who have been out of work for 12 months or more into paid roles in public and third sector…

An Aberdeen City Council school have unveiled a new garden to celebrate the life of one of its pupils.

Gerrard Somers, who passed away last year, was a much-loved primary 1 pupil at Kingsford School. Fellow pupils and staff wanted to create a special garden in memory of him.

The…

Staff who are part of the project which is building a low cost and low carbon heat network for Torry have grown connections with their local area by helping at a community garden and a primary school.

The Vital Energi workers, who are delivering the £10million Torry Heat Network for…