Thank you to the 5,018 people who voted for me in the election to choose Aberdeen South’s MP.

With winter approaching, it is worth taking a few minutes to make sure you, your home and your car are ready for winter.

The TSB branch in Forfar contacted the police after an 85-year-old man attended at the branch wishing to transfer a four figure sum of money to an account without providing details of where the money was going.

Residents across Aberdeen have been receiving letters from the council this week telling them the Garden Tax charge of £30 a year to collect garden waste from people’s brown wheelie bins will come into force on 1st September. Ironically, the letters are headed “recycle for Aberdeen”.

A large crowd watched an impressive parade of serving military personnel, veteran associations, cadet and youth organisations accompanied by a pipe band march down Union Street in Aberdeen’s Armed Forces Day Parade on Saturday 29th June.

Aberdeen’s annual Armed Forces Day parade takes place on Union Street between 11am and noon on Saturday 29th June.

Earlier today (19th June), following a request I made to the council’s Chief Executive, I was shown around the inside of Provost Skene’s House.

Very sadly, Jill Wisely, who served as councillor for this area for many years until she retired in 2012, died on Saturday 1st June.

Aberdeen Muslims are holding their annual Eid in the Garden event in Rubislaw Terrace Gardens on Sunday 9th June.

Aberdeen’s Liberal Democrat councillors have stepped up their campaign against the introduction of a Garden Tax – a charge for emptying garden waste from residents’ brown wheelie bins – by challenging the council  to answer 23 separate questions about the new tax.