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• ‘Our Aberdeen workshop gives disabled adults purpose – and saves them from lifetime of daytime TV’

  The Garthdee centre supports 22 adults with learning disabilities through workplace training helping them launch 'mini-businesses.'

• Fighting drunk was overpowered by Peterhead homeowner

  Mindaugas Smitras burst into a Peterhead home while drunk and tried to assault the homeowner before he himself was overpowered and arrested.

• Inchmarlo hotel developers say luxury project is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’ as construction stalls

  Developers behind proposals for a luxury five-star resort on the outskirts of Banchory, pleaded for permission to build more homes to bring in cash for the scheme.

• Exclusive: Paddington star Hugh Bonneville loves Aberdeenshire… but does he know his Doric?

  Press and Journal reporter Lindsay Bruce sat down with the Downton star during his visit to Braemar.

• Man charged in connection with attempted murder in Aberdeen

  The 37-year-old is due to appear in Aberdeen Sheriff Court on September 28.

• Man arrested and charged after £200,000 worth of cocaine seized from car near Aberdeen

  Police stopped the vehicle on the A90 near Aberdeen.

• Aberdeen court custody ordered to improve after inspectors find suicide and self-harm risks

  Inspectors said 'good fortune' prevented a potential conflict between two people in custody.

• What does last convener of Grampian Regional Council think of returning to old ways?

  The Scottish Government is considering reducing the nation's 32 councils down to between six and 10.

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