Alastair Gossip

After three years, Bucksburn Swimming Pool will reopen on Monday after a £2.1m refurbishment that wowed those who fought for the facility's survival.

Bucksburn Swimming Pool is reopening on Monday June 15, having been closed after swingeing Aberdeen City Council cuts.

Council-funded Sport Aberdeen has been without its chief executive for six months, while board members walked out last month.

The result in the Aberdeenshire East constituency has been announced, with Gillian Martin returning to parliament.

Utility companies are being urged to "play their part" in Aberdeen city centre's regeneration amid "frustrating" delays in underground work at the Castlegate.

Sport Aberdeen has been plunged into turmoil with four directors leaving the publicly-funded body. Councillors met on Wednesday for a secret summit on the situation.

Former teachers now running Aberdeen City Council education services are being challenged to go back to school to see the modern-day reality of the job, as "issues beginning on social media enter the classroom the next day".

Bosses are also ruling out working with drivers who gain a private hire licence without sitting the street knowledge test, if the council votes through that change.

Two thirds of those surveyed think the city council should pay towards building a new football and "multi-sport" stadium and leisure complex to keep the Dons in the city.

Aberdeen City Council is facing calls to double up available test slots to get more drivers on the streets, faster — as an alternative to industry-wide change.