Aberdeenshire

It said active inquiries remain at a very early stage and are evidence-led.

The Daily Express reported that the inquiries relate to claims that women were trafficked to the Aberdeenshire estate.

Photographs released during Maxwell's 2021 U.S. sex trafficking trial showed her and Epstein outside a log cabin at Balmoral in 1999.

Images later released by the U.S. Justice Department appear to show Andrew and Epstein on a shooting trip there.

And Couture, as much as the event yesterday was in Aberdeen, but Couture itself...

Aberdeenshire, I'm not sure

exactly where.

Sorry, Couture isn't Aberdeenshire, isn't it? And Frecombe is the Borders, down that way.

Oh, is it? I thought Frecombe was Dundee.

Well...

A baptism recorded in 1726 supports the later date of 1725, but Wikipedia lists him as 1726.

His father, the Reverend William Mercer, came from a family of Church of Scotland ministers, and he served at Pitsligo in Aberdeenshire from 1720 to 1748.

The biography identifies his mother as Anna Munro, daughter of Sir Robert Monroe.

A British officer killed at Falkirk in 1746 while opposing the Stuart Rising.

But I've been on a waiting list for a while as a deliberate full stop before I started stacking the next goals on top.

And then at the start of June, I went out to Aberdeenshire on a golf trip.

Mercar, Royal Aberdeen and Trump International.

Proper bucket list stuff for any golf fans.

Welcome to Signals to Danger.

Three people have died after a passenger train derailed near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire this morning and caught fire.

We went through a massive fireball.

I could feel the heat coming through windows and all windows I could see were just orange.

Life thrives in collaboration and the movement of communities rather than individuals.

And Rhynie in modern day Aberdeenshire or in the middle of the Caledonides Mountains in the Devonian is one of these places where we find evidence of these real tight interactions between fungi plants and animals that really characterise the early move on to land.

Without the assistance of fungi, plants would not have been able to develop roots and to exploit the mineral resources of the rocks around them.

And the plants themselves being able to extract energy from light, that's really handy for the fungus as well.

It does seem like fossil fuels are now kind of the main priority for the UK government or it's shifting in that direction.

Yeah, I mean, I think that it seems, I mean, particularly with this offshore wind thing, and we've got the rollback of the commitment to the Acorn carbon capture project in Aberdeenshire, it does seem like the, you know, net zero just transition agenda, as far as Westminster's concerned, is just completely junked, basically.

Yeah.

clearly are not particularly interested in it.

So I then practiced law.

I had a year in Edinburgh Crown Office and then I was a Procurator Fiscal Depute, a career prosecutor and then in private practice in Aberdeenshire and the opportunity came up to go for the nomination in Orkney and Shetland.

I was at a kind of junction in my career where I could have taken a partnership in the firm I was working for.

I could have set up on my own, with my own brass blade.