Two people were also taken to hospital after the serious accident near Laurencekirk.

Emergency services were called to the A90 near Laurencekirk after the two-vehicle accident.

The restored instrument - made in 1756 - is being brought back to life at a performance in Aberdeen.

The move brings the long-awaited development at a busy Aberdeenshire junction a step closer.

Plans for overhead lines through the landscape at the heart of the classic novel sparked protests.

Jimmy and Jean Ross are among dozens of families affected by flooding in Aberdeenshire and Brechin.

Storm Babet is forecast to bring "unprecedented" heavy rainfall for some parts of Scotland.

Mark Newman, now 63, carried out a string of attacks in northern Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s.