Please note that due to Peterhead Producers’ Market to be carried out by Rediscover Peterhead Limited it will be necessary in the interests of public safety to apply the following restrictions to traffic.
Start: Date 01 May 2021
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Please note that due to water excavation works to be carried out by Seivwright Brothers it will be necessary in the interests of public safety to apply the following restrictions to traffic.
Start Date: 17 May 2021
Location roadworks: Links View, St. Fergus for 5 Days
Access will be provided for emergency and vehicles requiring access to properties but may be subject to delay until the road is cleared of construction plant to allow safe passage through the work.
Any queries please contact Seivwright Brothers – 01466 751316
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The latest announcement on Scotland’s journey out of lockdown means people will be allowed to meet in groups of up to six adults from six households in outdoor settings from Friday.
In addition, people will also be permitted to travel across Scotland and Aberdeenshire as long as they do not stay overnight.
These changes had not been due to come into force until 26 April but the Scottish government said they were being made earlier than originally planned in an effort to boost people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Virtually all pupils will return to school full time after the Easter holidays.
The only exception is for those in the shielding category, who must stay at home until 26 April.
Secondary school pupils will no longer have to follow strict two metre physical distancing rules when they return, but they must wear face coverings at all times.
All primary school pupils had returned full-time by mid March, but before the Easter break secondary pupils were taught using blended learning – a mix of home and classroom study.
All remaining shops and close contact services like nail salons are due to reopen on 26 April.
Pubs, bars, cafés, restaurants and bars will be able to serve people outdoors – in groups of up to six from six households – until 22:00 from that date. Alcohol will be permitted, and there will be no requirement for food to be served.
Takeaways will be able to resume normal service, with physical distancing and face masks worn in premises
There will also be a partial resumption of indoor hospitality – food and non-alcoholic drinks can be served until 20:00 for groups of up to four people from no more than two households. Contact details will still need to be collected.
Indoor gyms and swimming pools will be allowed to open for individual exercise, driving lessons and tests will take place, and non-essential work in people’s homes can resume.
Scotland will return to a levels system, with the entire country initially moving to a modified version of the current level three restrictions.
Island communities – which have been in level three for some time – will stay in the same level as the mainland at first to allow people to travel between areas.
Non-essential journeys to other parts of the UK and the wider common travel area should also be permitted from 26 April.
Tourist accommodation, museums, galleries, libraries can also open from this date.
The number of people allowed to attend a wedding or funeral rises to 50.
People on the shielding list will be able to return to work, college, school or nursery.
Three weeks later, on 17 May it is hoped most, if not all, council areas will be able to move from level three to level two, allowing much more normality.
People should at last be allowed to meet up inside others’ homes (although this could happen sooner) – initially in groups of up to four people from no more than two households.
Indoor hospitality is expected to resume with alcohol being served and pubs or restaurants allowed to stay open until 22:30 with two-hour time-limited booking slots.
Cinemas, bingo halls and amusement arcades can now reopen.
Outdoor and indoor events such as concerts can also restart, but capacity may be limited initially.
Restrictions on meeting up outdoors will ease further. Adult outdoor contact sports and indoor group exercises can resume.
More students will be back at university or college but with blended learning continuing. Face-to-face support services such as counselling can take place.
The hope is that from 1 June, all of Scotland can move to level one – and by the end of the month to level zero, the lowest category of the five tier system.
In early June it is hoped up to six people from three households can socialise indoors, at home or in a public place.
Outside up to eight people from three households can meet while for 12 to 17-year-olds the limit on the number of households rises to eight.
Hospitality will be able to stay open until 23:00 and the number of constraints on events such as concerts will be relaxed.
Indoor non-contact sport will resume. Casinos, funfairs and soft play can re-open.
The risk of importing new variants of Covid means a big question mark hangs over non-essential international travel, for instance for holidays.
It will almost certainly not be allowed before mid-May, and the government warns it may not resume for some time after that.
When it is allowed, pre-departure and post-arrival testing will remain a requirement.
From the end of June there will be a phased return of some office staff and increased numbers at places of worship or other events such as weddings.
This gravestone in one of Peterhead local cemeteries hides a tale of Arctic exploration and adventure. The stone commemorates Alexander Robertson, formerly a crewman on the steamship Eira, which was built by the Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith in Peterhead.
Benjamin Leigh Smith paid for Alexander’s headstone.
Leigh Smith was a wealthy man and travelled extensively to the Svalbard and Spitsbergen regions between 1871 and 1882. In 1880 he had the ship Eira (a screw barquentine) built at the Peterhead yard of Messrs Stephen and Forbes. The whaling family, the Grays, helped with the building, with David Gray assisting in the drawing up of specifications. Leigh Smith made his next voyage to the Arctic in 1880, departing Peterhead on board Eira on 22 May.
On this expedition he took William John Alexander (Johnny) Grant as the official photographer. Grant had established a reputation as a polar photographer, having been on many polar expeditions and exhibited his photographs at the Royal Photographic Society, as well as being a Fellow of the Society and of the Royal Geographic Society.
Leigh Smith and his crew of 24 (mainly Scots and Shetlanders as was common for Artic exploration at the time) aimed to explore Jan Mayen, but this was covered in mist. On 11 July, Eira met up with the Peterhead whalers Hope and Eclipse led by John and David Gray.
The crew of the sailing ship ‘Eira’ dismember a polar bear on the ice at the bows of the ‘Eira’ which is moored to the ice. A crew member stands on deck watching.
They were finally rescued by the Dutch ship Willem Barentzs and transferred to the Peterhead whaler Hope for the journey home. It’s thought Alexander Robertson died of the privations his body had suffered on the ice.
Credit to Kenny Bruce
| Start Date/Time | 08 April 2021 / 09:30 |
| End Date/Time | 12 April 2021 / 15:30 |
| Location | Off Network to A90 (Jct Hatton to Jct Teuchan), Northbound |
| Description Works: | Carriageway Patching Traffic |
| Management: | Portable Traffic Lights (TTLS). |
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The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed today that “virtually all” of Scotland’s high school pupils will be making a full-time return to education after the Easter holidays.
The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed students will be allowed to return as normal after two weeks off for the half-term break following an assessment of relevant data. There is an exception for children on the shielding list who are recommended to stay at home until April 26.
She said “When the Easter holidays end, virtually all pupils will return to school full-time, so secondary schools will go back to in-person, full-time learning.”
The two-metre physical distancing rule will be scrapped while twice weekly Covid-19 testing is to be introduced in Scotland for staff and students. Nicola Sturgeon said schools should consider how to “strengthen other mitigations” such as ventilation.
Secondary pupils have so far only been able to spend a limited amount of time in the classroom after the Scottish Government closed schools to most pupils for a second time at the beginning of this year.
Please note that due to ironworks to be carried out by Sunbelt Rentals it will be necessary in the interests of public safety to apply the following restrictions to traffic.
Access will be provided for emergency and vehicles requiring access to properties but may be subject to delay until the road is cleared of construction plant to allow safe passage through the work.
Start: Date 08 April 2021
NORTHBOUND LANE CLOSURE
Location roadworks: Windmill road, Peterhead. For 1 Days, (from Blackhouse roundabout to Entrance to shops)
PROHIBITION OF WAITING
Site notices will be erected in due course indicating the temporary restriction to traffic and the alternative routes where applicable.
DIVERSION ROUTE
Windmill road to Longside road,Longside road to A90 Howe O Buchan, A90 to A982, A982 onto North Road
Any queries please contact Sunbelt Rentals – 03700500792
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Hairdressers, garden centres, car showrooms and forecourts, homeware stores and non-essential click and collect services will be able to open from Monday 5 April Business start reopening after lockdown, subject to enhanced safety measures including physical distancing, face coverings and pre-booking where appropriate.
More college students will be able to return to on-campus learning and 12-17 year-olds will be able to resume outdoor contact sports from this date.
Restrictions on non-essential travel across local authority boundaries will remain in place.
People must stay within their council area for non-essential shopping and should only travel to another area for essential shopping if there are no practical alternatives.
People should also continue to work from home where they can to prevent unnecessary contact that could risk transmission of the virus.
The latest easing of restrictions comes as data shows continued suppression of Coronavirus (COVID-19), and progress on vaccination. Virtually all over 65 year olds have now received a first dose of the vaccine, and the average daily case rate is now 539 new cases per day, a decline of more than 75% since early January.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said:
“We have made progress both in suppressing the virus and in vaccination, and therefore the changes I previously indicated will go ahead on 5 April.
“The stay at home rule is being replaced by a requirement to stay local – while Covid levels remain high in some areas, and while a lot of people remain unvaccinated, we do not want the virus to spread from areas with relatively high prevalence to areas with low rates of infection. That’s why the current travel restrictions, which prevent non-essential travel outside your local authority area, are really important.
“It will be easier to relax more restrictions in the future if case numbers remain under control, so when things open up slightly this weekend please continue to stick to the rules, and follow the advice and the instructions given by store staff to keep you and the other customers safe.
“Stay at home – for now – protect the NHS, and follow the FACTS advice when you are out and about to help save lives.”
Coronavirus (COVID-19) update: First Minister’s statement – 30 March 2021 – gov.scot
Guidance will be updated on Friday and Monday to take account of the changes confirmed today.
During the pre-election period the usual parliamentary protocol applies and draft regulations will be shared with the COVID-19 Committee.
Consultation with sectors still to reopen is ongoing, towards further decisions on easing to be taken ahead of the next review point on 26 April.
Please note that due to Peterhead Producers’ Market to be carried out by Rediscover Peterhead Limited it will be necessary in the interests of public safety to apply the following restrictions to traffic.
Start: Date 03 April 2021
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Location: Marischal street and Thistle street
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