Making Mother’s Day Every year we ask our mothers what they would like and every year we’re told that they don’t really want or need anything. This year, Mother’s Day falls on Sunday 14 March and it looks like Mother’s Day gifts won’t be considered essential shopping. Unless your Mum will be happy with something…

Spiral Supports Next-Gen Sports Stars Spiral Services, Aberdeen-based provider of standard and bespoke bulk handling systems for screw conveyor and pressure vessel packages, is not only committed to supporting the oil and gas industry, but also the local community in which it operates – especially its youngest members.  Recently, they have created quite a buzz…

The Royal Northern & University Club A warm welcome and so much more The Royal Northern & University Club has been part of the very fabric of the city for over 150 years, yet many of us have no idea of what lies beyond the entrance portico of the substantial granite premises on Albyn Place. …

Annie Baillie: Aberdeenshire’s extraordinary conwoman The most notorious female fraudster of the Victorian age was born in 1848 in Peterhead. Her mother, Kate Reid was a household servant at the farm at Wester Barnyards near Clola. The father was the farmer, John Newbond. He denied fathering the child and threw the poor pregnant Kate out…

The Big Interview Pam Cradock combines her role as an Independent Financial Advisor with being the first female chairman of the Royal Northern and University Club.  I was born in North Yorkshire to Scottish parents. We came to Aberdeen when I was 3 years old so my childhood memories are of here. My family moved…