Crathie

Councillors will be told next week that £1.7m has already been spent. A large proportion of the money is being spent on repairing and refurbishing 22 flood-damaged council houses in the Ballater area. Replacing a collapsed section of the A93, near ...

The 12 pupils taking part at Crathie School will receive 100 of the rocket seeds, currently still on the space station in microgravity, to grow alongside regular seeds over seven weeks. The young scientists won't know which seed packet contains which ...

The voyage of the seeds is part of Rocket Science, an educational project launched by the Royal Horticultural Society's (RHS) campaign for school gardening alongside the UK Space Agency. Crathie head teacher Lilian Field said: “We are very excited to ...

A temporary road to replace part of the A93 which collapsed during the recent floods has opened to all traffic. A section of the carriageway, near Crathie in Aberdeenshire, was washed away following Storm Frank. Work on the 20mph diversion route at ...

The collapse meant motorists were forced to take an alternative route via the B976 South Deeside Road between Ballater and Crathie. Councillor David Aitchison, chair of Aberdeenshire Council's infrastructure services committee, said the impact of ...

Britain's Zara Philips and her husband Mike Tindall arrive at Crathie Kirk for a Sunday church service in Crathie, northern Scotland September 21, 2014. Photo: Reuters/Dylan Martinez. Former England rugby captain Mike Tindall and his wife Zara Phillips ...