Fri 3rd Feb

A young woman, caught with nearly £130,000 worth of heroin at an Aberdeen nightclub, has avoided a jail term.  Terri Ann Trebilcock was detained by police after a fight at Liquid nightclub in February last year.  Officers found 374 bags of heroin when the 19 year old was asked to empty her handbag.  Trebilock, who is from Kent, appeared at the High Court in Glasgow today after previously admitting being involved in the supply of class-A drugs.  Her defence said she had been pressurised into becoming a drugs courier by an abusive boyfriend.  The judge spared Trebilock from a spell of detention, and instead sentenced her to 200 hours of community service.

Enquiries are continuing into the cause of a road accident, which claimed the life of a man and injured two women.  A car and a tractor collided on the A95 near Keith just before 11 o’clock yesterday morning.  A 70 year old man driving the car died at the scene.  The road was closed for 8 hours for investigations, and police are appealing for witnesses, as they try to piece together what happened. 

A fire outside a block of flats in Aberdeen is being treated as suspicious.  The blaze happened on Gardner Crescent between 9 and 9.30 last night.  As a result, damage was caused to the front door of the apartment block.  Police are keen to trace 4 teenage boys, seen in the area at the time of the incident. 

Police divers have been searching Fraserburgh harbour for a Latvian fisherman, who has been missing for several days.  Viktors Asitkovs was last seen in the Faithlie Street area of the town at about 11pm on Saturday.  The alarm was raised after the 51 year old failed to turn up for work on the fishing boat the Willing Lad.   Mr Asitkovs has short grey hair and, when last seen was wearing a black leather jacket, blue or grey jeans and a black top. 

A poll of members of Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce on the City Garden Project has shown that 64% of all members who responded support and would vote for the project.  36% of responding members would vote for retaining Union Terrace Gardens while the views of non-members who also responded to the survey were almost evenly split with 51% in favour of the City Garden as opposed to 49% wanting to retain the gardens as they are.

Peterhead’s Maritime Centre has been sold.  Aberdeenshire Council has struck a deal to transfer control of the building to Banff and Buchan College.  The college has been leasing the former heritage centre at the town’s Lido since July 2010.  It runs educational courses there.  Chairman of the Buchan Area Committee, Stuart Pratt, said: “Transferring this building over for educational use not only secures its future, but also helps to improve the educational provision in the area, and boost the local economy.

A woman caught drink-driving just two days after passing her test has been banned for a year.  23 year old Kylie Innes had been celebrating Christmas in Stonehaven with her mother.  She drove off on the A90 Aberdeen to Dundee road in the early hours of Boxing Day and was stopped by police near Newtonhill.  She admitted the offence and was fined £400.

Plans for a new super-jail in Peterhead have been backed by local councillors.  They unanimously approved the detailed planning application, paving the way for construction to start in the coming months.  The 500 cell HMP Grampian will replace Peterhead’s existing prison and Craiginches in Aberdeen.  its hoped the new facility will be open by 2014.