Council officers recommended a £200,000 cut due to a lack of Scottish government funding.

The community of Macduff in Aberdeenshire is among those to face the threat of its library closing.

Aberdeenshire Council had expressed "regret" last year over how it announced the planned closures.

Options for the way forward are being explored, and a series of community meetings are to be held.

An abandoned former tourist attraction in Aberdeenshire, which has been derelict for 13 years, has been put on the market for less than 4% of its original cost.

Aberdeenshire Council says it would rather have engaged fully with communities before announcing closures.

Reasons given for closing the sites included low usage and buildings no longer being suitable.

The North East Scotland Pension Fund had invested millions of pounds in Under Armour stock.