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ToBi the Tour of Britain mascot visited schools today across the city to help promote the Tour of Britain and Getabout Aberdeen Cycling Festival.
Children at Hazlehead, Kingswells, Loirston, Airyhall, Dyce and St Peter’s Primary Schools were visited by ToBi during assemblies and…
Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council, alongside TotalEnergies and Event Scotland, have today launched a final push for a weekend of cycling activities across the North East next month.
The biggest professional road cycling race in the UK will arrive in the area on 4th…
The Galloway Hoard, one of the most important UK archaeological finds of the century will go on display from 30 July at Aberdeen Art Gallery, with yet more fascinating discoveries unveiled.
The exhibition in Aberdeen will feature never-before-seen images of gold filigree objects from the…
As part of the Getabout Aberdeen Cycling Festival, Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council and Sweetspot are pleased to announce that entries are open for this year’s Corporate Race.
The Corporate Race is open to teams of four riders, one of which must be a female, and is a…
Aberdeen City Council staff are to meet and agree next steps with all relevant parties, including survivors of and families affected by the Piper Alpha disaster and trade unions, to redesign the North Sea Memorial Rose Garden, a…
A public consultation to gather views from residents on a proposed Aberdeen City Council Short Term Let licensing scheme has started.
The consultation follows the Civic Government Scotland Act 1982 (Licensing of Short Term Lets) Order…
For the first time in hundreds of years, the 10th-century Book of Deer has returned to the North East, where it may have originated. The rare example of a pocket gospel will be on display at Aberdeen Art Gallery, on loan from Cambridge…
Aberdeen set to honour Armed Forces past and present
Crowds will line Union Street as Aberdeen welcomes more than 1,000 serving, veteran and cadet force personnel when they parade through the city centre to mark Armed Forces Day.
The City of Aberdeen will welcome more than 1,000…
Two commemorative plaques are to be erected after committee approval (Tuesday 21 June) – one to mark a woman who was a doctor, social welfare pioneer and politician and the other one to acknowledge the history of a structure in Old Aberdeen.
…Today, Aberdeen Art Gallery launched a new, digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and cultural app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Bloomberg Connects app, available free to download from Google Play or the App Store, makes Aberdeen Art Gallery accessible for both onsite or…
Aberdeen City Council, in co-operation with Scottish Cycling, multiple Grampian cycling clubs, Sweetspot Group and GetAbout, is pleased to announce a packed day of cycling activities across the city centre to celebrate the Tour of Britain Grand Depart on 3rd September 2022.
The…
A group of staff from Aberdeen City Council’s Archives, Gallery & Museums (AAGM) service is showing their support for the annual Pavlovka Pinhole Festival in Ukraine by staging an exhibition at Aberdeen Maritime Museum of images from previous Festivals (opens…