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Funding for NHS boards for 2010-11 is to increase by 2.7% to a record £8.4bn, the Scottish government announces.

A woman who died in a fire in an Aberdeen flat, where smoke alarms were not working, is named by police.

Pupils at the northernmost school in the UK debate the impact the closure of their senior department would have on Unst.

A man appears in court charged with murdering his first wife and trying to kill his second as part of a plot to make money.

A prostitute tells a murder trial how her then boyfriend stabbed one of her clients to death in Aberdeen last May.

Highland Airways is refusing to comment on its future involvement in a service between Cardiff and Anglesey in Wales.

An "intoxicated" 24-year-old woman has to be rescued by a lifeboat after being spotted in the sea in Shetland.

A Tornado lands safely at RAF Lossiemouth after suffering engine problems while flying over the Highlands.

A man who admitted robbing a female taxi driver and dumping her bound and gagged must wait to learn his fate.

Four people are arrested after drugs worth thousands of pounds were seized in Aberdeen by Grampian Police.

A date for the results of the consultation on plans to create a civic square in Aberdeen to be made public is set.

Union members at Aberdeen City Council are to hold a mass meeting over plans to withhold an annual pay increase to staff.

An offshore worker is airlifted to hospital in Aberdeen after being injured on a North Sea oil supply vessel.

An Aberdeenshire charity which uses horse riding to rehabilitate injured soldiers welcomes its largest group of commandoes.

Leading whisky supplier Whyte & Mackay says it is sorry if it misled anyone over its case against minimum drink pricing.

A murder accused admitted stabbing a man because he did not want his girlfriend working as a prostitute, a trial has heard.

A man who admitted causing the death of a Moray motorist by dangerous driving is jailed for three years.

A mother tells of her daughter's ordeal after her arm got trapped in a vending machine and had to be rescued.

A trumpet which was played at dances at Balmoral Castle in the 1940s and 1950s fails to sell at auction.

Smoke alarms were not working in an Aberdeen flat where an elderly woman died following a fire, it is revealed.