Monthly Archives: January 2016
Aberdeen hold on to win with an @17AdamRooney goal
by Derek
Categories: Uncategorized
flood clear-up
by Ross
by Alan Shields… Scotland’s flood clear-up continued yesterday (MON) as a car was fished out of a river in Aberdeen. Vehicle recovery experts and police divers were drafted in to help remove the red Audi A1 from the River Dee. The hatchback is believed to have been parked at the David Lloyd leisure centre […]
Categories: News, Photography • Tags: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, auto, automobile, autos, Britain, British, British Isles, car, ecology, ecosystem, environment, environmentalism, Europe, Great Britain, motor car, nature, Newsline Media, River, River Dee, Scotland, storm, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, vehicle, water, weather
Sink Hole
by Newsline
by Charlotte Thomson…. A city centre road was closed yesterday (FRI) after a sinkhole caused part of the road to collapse. Traffic was diverted on Aberdeen’s Chapel Street on Thursday night after the tarmac caved in on the middle of the road. It’s feared water from recent wet weather caused the problem. While the surface […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Aberdeenshire, Britain, British, British Isles, Chapel Street, Europe, Great Britain, Newsline Media, Photography, Scotland, sink hole, U.K., UK, United Kingdom
Abergeldie Castle
by Newsline
By Alan Shields… Work continued to secure the future of a 16th century flood stricken castle yesterday (WED). Abergeldie Castle, in the heart of the Cairngorms, was left teetering on the brink of destruction after devastating floods swept along Royal Deeside last week. The Baron of Abergeldie, John Gordon, and his wife sought refuge at a […]
Categories: News • Tags: Abergeldie, architectural, architecture, Ballater, building, Cairngorms, castle, Dee, Deeside, ecology, ecosystem, environment, environmentalism, Extreme Weather, flood, Floods, Newsline Media, Photography, River, River Dee, Royal Deeside, Storm Frank, structures, weather
Fireballs Ceremony
by Ross
Around 9,000 people packed into the Aberdeenshire town of Stonehaven last night to watch the streets being lit up in flames at the town’s world famous Fireballs Ceremony. Dozens of participants marched up and down the streets of the Old Town near the harbour swinging brightly lit fiery balls, that lit up the darkness just […]
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Ballater
by Ross
By Alan Shields… Unsung heroes from across the flood stricken community of Royal Deeside and further afield united yesterday (FRI) as they start the New Year faced with a massive clean up operation. Residents, who had just 24 hours earlier been mopping out their properties after the River Dee burst its banks in the village […]
Categories: News • Tags: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Ballater, Britain, British, British Isles, Deeside, ecology, ecosystem, environment, environmentalism, Europe, flood, Great Britain, nature, Newsline Media, scenery, Scotland, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, water, weather