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A major redevelopment of Aberdeen Maritime Museum's energy exploration galleries is to go ahead.

An Aberdeen building firm is fined £9,000 and ordered to pay a workman £4,000 after he suffered burns in a fire.

Police appeal for information after an "irreplaceable" watch is stolen from an Orkney island's heritage centre.

Four Greenpeace activists are arrested after giving up their occupation of a Scottish company's drilling rig off Greenland.

A fire service says it dealt with more false alarms in 2009-10 than it did in the previous four years.

An Aberdeen councillor facing embezzlement court proceedings steps down from some of his duties.

Figures obtained by the BBC suggest that in one in nine Scottish primary schools at least 60% of places are unfilled.

Many women having cosmetic surgery believe it is other people who are motivated by vanity, it is claimed.

A woman in the Grampian area has landed a £1m Premium Bond win, it has been revealed.

An earthquake is recorded in the North Sea about 155 miles east of Aberdeen.

About 600 homes in Aberdeen were left without power in Aberdeen after a morning fault.

A man jailed for a "brutal" attack on a Polish man must wait to learn his fate for another attempted murder.

An Aberdeen-based oil and gas consultancy says it expects to create 20 new jobs by the end of the year.

Police appeal for witnesses after a "particularly vicious" assault in Aberdeen.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was sexually assaulted at a block of flats in Aberdeen in the early hours of Saturday.

An Aberdeen councillor and his wife are charged with embezzlement at the city's sheriff court.

Greenpeace boards a Scottish company's drilling rig in waters off the coast of Greenland and forces work to stop.

A man who admitted abusing young girls tried to commit suicide before admitting the offences, a court hears.

The University of Aberdeen's master of chapel and ceremonial music is retiring after hundreds of services.

A 200-turbine offshore wind farm is proposed for a site in the Moray Firth.