It is a village you could be forgiven for overlooking but Poringland appears to be home to the county's most complicated border.

Police had to race at 125mph to try and catch-up with Pavol Holka as he drove through Portsoy and towards Banff earlier this year.

An Inverness drug dealer who had cannabis worth more than £30,000 in a lock-up has avoided jail. The keys to the lock-up in Carsegate Road were found in a raid on Joshua Sykes’ home in Balloan Road.

Five members of a family, including a toddler, were found dead at their residence in Hyderabad. Police have shifted the bodies for post-mortem and launched an investigation.

The newly-listed shares of Shanti Gold International surged nearly 11 percent on August 21 after the company released its results for the first quarter of the financial year 2026.