31/03/16 11:20
Have you tried to get a doctor’s appointment recently? If you phone up today, you will be offered an appointment on April 20. That’s almost three weeks away.
Read More...Tags: medical
10/10/15 12:34
So you buy yourself a coffee in a disposable cup. You drive up past Kintore Golf Club on the Balbithan Road this morning and….
Read More...Tags: litter
24/02/15 09:23
We all know what it’s like when the lights go out. Infuriating isn’t it? Fortunately, it doesn’t happen often. We are used to our services just working 99% of the time.
Read More...Tags: broadband, Kintore
27/01/15 16:34
We have an amazing variety of wildlife on our doorstep, which is being placed under increasing pressure, none more so than our lovely red squirrel.
Read More...Tags: wildlife, Kintore
22/11/14 13:35
It is quite obvious from the recent survey on broadband in Kintore and the comments received at kintore.org.uk and on our
Facebook page, that a substantial number of people are having problems with broadband disconnecting intermittently.
Read More...Tags: broadband, Kintore
01/08/14 15:12
The closure of the Kintore Arms (albeit maybe temporarily) has flagged up an important issue in the town. Instead of being a reasonably self-sufficient village, Kintore is increasing being forced to become an outward-looking town.
Read More...Tags: Kintore, TownHouse, Shops, supermarket, filling station, hotel, Gateway Kintore, Kintore Fundraising Team, Kintore Summer Festival
30/07/14 11:02
So the fibre broadband installation in Kintore is well underway. Poor broadband connections have long been one of the hottest topics on Kintore.org.uk and our associated
Kintore Facebook page.
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26/05/14 11:40
Despite a 1,000 name supportive petition and 340 representations to the council, planners from
Aberdeenshire Council are still refusing to include
Gateway Kintore in the
Aberdeenshire Council local plan.
Read More...Tags: Gateway Kintore, Kintore, supermarket, hotel, Aberdeenshire Council
25/04/14 09:47
It is good to hear that attentions are turning to finding a new use to give a new lease of life to Kintore Town House. It is a magnificent and historic building that has been the jewel in the crown at the centre of our
Royal Burgh of Kintore since 1747.
Read More...Tags: TownHouse, Kintore
13/02/14 16:21
Twice in the past few months I have been in meetings where the line of the Aberdeen to Inverness dual carriageway was highlighted as being a burning issue for those with an interest in the future of this area.
Read More...Tags: inverurie, Kintore, A96, roads
18/09/13 11:14
Aberdeenshire councillors have told the developers behind the Kintore East development, that could see 1,200 new houses built in Kintore, that community facilities must come first.
Read More...Tags: housing, development, supermarket, Kintore East, community facilities, filling station, Shops
12/09/13 09:22
On Tuesday you will be asked to approve a development that will result in the building of up to 1,200 new homes in Kintore. This will be a massive expansion of Kintore which already has a population of 4,447.
Read More...Tags: Gateway Kintore, Kintore East, Kintore, development, housing, supermarket, community facilities
12/07/13 09:24
So the UK Government is to press ahead with the sale of Royal Mail, one of the services that even Mrs Thatcher’s government thought was a privatisation too far.
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19/04/13 09:46
Last night’s fire at the old Torryburn Hotel has brought the matter of fire cover in Kintore to mind.
Read More...Tags: fire service, Kintore
02/04/13 09:32
The daffodils have been keeping themselves covered up. And who can blame them? Even thought it is April, there is still ‘sna behind the dykes’ in the fields around Kintore and the temperatures remain stubbornly cold, with a biting wind.
Read More...Tags: photo, Bennachie
12/11/10 16:32
Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled due to poor ticket sales. Kintore Youth Forum Fundraising Ceilidh with Celtallica, on Saturday, November 20 in Kintore Public Hall.
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13/08/10 11:39
I made my usual trip into town to get the papers. No matter what the weather the sight of the Town House still lifts my heart. It really is a distinctive and historic centre piece for the Royal Burgh of Kintore.
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16/01/10 12:55
Every year we make a deliberate effort to wait a week or so after New Year before taking the bottles to the recycling, having been caught out one year going too soon and finding everything overflowing.
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29/12/09 11:38
We are about to launch ourselves into the second decade of the 21st century. (Well most of us are, there are those who say that the decade doesn’t start until 2011.)
Read More...Tags: future, development
13/10/09 10:48
Have I not been observant before, or has something happened to the top of the fountain at the Town House?
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15/06/09 17:52
On the day of the festival, I met a guy with a camera when my camera battery went flat and I asked him to take photos on the day for me. Read More...Tags: Kintore Summer Festival
21/05/09 10:05
The
Virgin Balloon is becoming a common sight over Kintore as it flies out of its Aberdeen City and Shire base at Castle Fraser.
Read More...Tags: balloon, Virgin, google
