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Peterhead

Peterhead sits at the easternmost point in mainland Scotland, Aberdeenshire.

Scotland will move

Scotland will move to Level 0 on Monday First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today confirmed that all of Scotland will move to Level 0 Covid -19 restrictions on Monday – however, there would be a number of changes to what had previously been announced.

Scottish Government covid protection levels update

From Monday (19 July) Scotland will move to Level 0, with modifications on previous guidance:

Scotland will move to Level 0 with Main changes new things:

  • Up to 8 people from 4 households can meet in your home or theirs – and can stay overnight.
  • Up to 10 people from 4 households can meet in an indoor public place with 1m distance between households.
  • Up to 15 people from 15 households can meet outdoors in your garden or a public place for informal gathering – distancing not required within the group of 15 outdoors, but different groups need to distance.
  • You do not need to physically distance from family and friends in a private home.
  • Customers no longer need to pre-book a two-hour time slot in hospitality venues (unless the venue requests it) but track and trace details must still be collected.
  • Hospitality venues must close at midnight.
  • Those arriving from amber list countries will no longer have to isolate on arrival in Scotland, if double vaccinated and return a negative PCR test.
  • You can travel anywhere in Scotland.
  • You can travel anywhere in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands – before you travel you must check the travel rules in those countries.
  • Up to 200 people can attend weddings and funerals.
  • You should still work from home where possible.
  • All organized outdoor and indoor sports, personal training, organized exercise and coaching are permitted with safety measures.
  • Small seated indoor events are permitted with a maximum of 400 people.
  • Outdoor seated and open space events are advised to operate with a maximum capacity of 2,000 people.
  • Outdoor grouped standing events are advised to operate with a maximum capacity of 1,000 people.
  • We still shouldn’t be car sharing with those not in our household.
  • We should be testing regularly, regardless of whether or not we have COVID-19 symptoms – full details on different types of testing: https://www.gov.scot/…/coronavirus-covid-19-getting…/
  • Make sure you get both doses of your vaccine to reduce the risk of serious illness if you catch COVID-19.
  • Beyond Level 0 (on track for 9 August), the blanket self-isolation of all close contacts will be removed if double vaccinated and return a negative PCR test.
  • Advice is being gathered on the removal of self-isolation of young people who are close contacts in education settings. A further update and decision on this will be taken before the return of schools.
  • The next full review of the protection levels will take place on Tuesday 3 August ahead of the potential move beyond Level 0 from Monday 9 August.
Scotland will move
Scotland will move to Level 0

Scotland will move to Level 0: what you can do

Check the level for an area using the postcode tool.

At Level 0:

  • you can meet socially in groups:
    • of up to 8 people from 4 households in your home or theirs – and can stay overnight
    • of up to 10 people from 4 households in an indoor public place like a café, pub or restaurant
    • of up to 15 people from 15 households outdoors
  • under 12s do not count towards the total number of people or households meeting outside but count towards the household numbers indoors
  • you do not need to physically distance from family and friends in a private home
  • you can travel anywhere in Scotland in Levels 0, 1 or 2 but must not enter a Level 3 or 4 area unless for a permitted reason
  • you can travel anywhere in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands – before you travel you must check the travel rules in those countries
  • you can provide informal childcare, for example to look after a grandchild
  • up to 200 people can attend weddings and funerals
  • tradespeople can carry out any work in your home such as painting, decorating or repairing
  • you should work from home where possible

Testing

Everyone is encouraged to get tested, as around 1 in 3 people with COVID-19 do not have symptoms. Testing is free and results are available in around 30 minutes. Read guidance on getting tested.

Scotland will move to Level 0 What can open:

Places and business that can open at Level 0 include:

  • cafés, pubs and restaurants
  • all shops and stores
  • all close contact services including hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons
  • all sport and exercise
  • tourist accommodation
  • all visitor attractions
  • all public buildings like libraries and community centres
  • all entertainment (apart from nightclubs and adult entertainment)
  • stadiums and events – with maximum numbers
  • a limited and phased return to offices

What must close at Level 0

Places and business that must close at Level 0 include:

  • Nightclubs and adult entertainment.

Scotland roads

Scotland roads, ancient and perhaps the most intriguing.

Scotland has many ancient roads, and perhaps the most intriguing are the coffin Scotland roads.

The coffin Scotland roads were often just rough tracks through glens and mountains, but they were vital for transporting the bodies of the deceased from remote locations to consecrated ground for burial.

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Scotland roads

Some can still be traced today, one such road is St Edderens way, which traverses Aberdeenshire’s Mormond Hill between the villages of Strichen and Rathen.

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Scotland roads

The corpse were transported over the hill from Strichen to Rathen, as Strichen did not have a kirk or cemetery when it was built. Mormond Hill itself is a place steeped in myth and legend, one one side is a giant white horse made of stone, on the other side a giant white stag https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormond_Hill.

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On top of the hill stands the ruin of a hunting lodge, the date stone bears the legend “Rob Gibb commands 1779” Rob Gibb was Charles the Second’s court jester and it’s thought the inscription is a veiled Jacobite toast to the Stuart dynasty.

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On the coffin road are many ancient sites of interest, in particular the Resting Cairn, where the coffins of the deceased were rested on the stones until the pall bearers felt refreshed enough to continue their journey.

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Perhaps the greatest enigma of a Mormond Hill is that some historians have theorised that it may be considered as the site of the fabled battle of Mons Graupius between The Picts and the Romans.

I make no such claim, Mons Graupius has been attributed to locations all over Scotland !

All the photographs are Kenny Bruce.

Author Kenny Bruce

local store

Local Store Community Champion Sheena

Morrisons Community Champion Sheena from Peterhead local store

Sheena has done a huge amount of fundraising for Young Lives vs Cancer reaching over £88,000 for the charity!

This whopping figure is a huge amount for one store alone, helping Morrisons collectively get to a total of £15 million for the charity so far.

What a fantastic achievement!

Well Done Sheena!

Also, Sheena and Morrisons Peterhead Community support local organisations like – Salvation Army Peterhead Corps, Peterhead Foodbank Centre, Buchan Giving Tree and etc.

Amazing community in Peterhead & surrounding areas.

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Local company Strachans

Local company Strachans are sponsoring Peterhead based professional golfer

Strachans local company are sponsoring Peterhead based professional golfer Ross Cameron.

Strachans are sponsoring Peterhead based professional golfer Ross Cameron as he looks to build on his fantastic achievements in 2020!


In a very shortened golfing calendar in 2020, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, Ross won the Scottish PGA Championship, the PGA Northern Open and topped the PGA Scottish region order of merit.

Ross Cameron
Ross Cameron
Local company Strachans
Strachans local company are sponsoring Peterhead based professional golfer Ross Cameron.

“Strachans contacted me towards the end of last year to congratulate me on my successes and to offer their help for the 2021 season. With tournament costs relatively high in comparison to prize money on offer, their help is invaluable to me and pretty much necessary to allow me to play these tournaments. It’s great to have a local company sponsoring me as I look to build on the successes of my 2020 season.”

Ross said


In 2021 Ross is competing on the PGA Europro Tour, a third tier development tour with the goal of gaining promotion to the second tier for 2022. This week Ross is competing at an Europro Tour event in Newbury and is currently sitting 3 shots off the lead.


Wishing you all the very best of success in your 2021 season ahead, Ross and we are proud to be sponsoring you this year.

Ross Cameron

04/09/2020

Ross Cameron achieved the biggest success of his career in winning the Loch Lomond Whiskies PGA Scottish Championship and in doing so experience some sunshine in an otherwise gloomy year.

Cancelled tournaments and shut down golf clubs due to the lockdown meant the 41-year-old from Peterhead had to take on a part-time job in a supermarket to supplement his income.

But those worries were temporarily cast aside at Deer Park Golf and Country Club as he won the Tartan Tour’s flagship event.

Aberdeenshire and Moray

Aberdeenshire and Moray will move to level 1 on Saturday.

Aberdeenshire and Moray will move to level 1, Glasgow to move to Level 2 and Scotland remains on the right track.

The First Minister outlined the next steps to Parliament and confirmed that Glasgow will move to Level 2 from 00:01 on Saturday 5 June 2021.

The following mainland local authority areas will also remain at Level 2, while the situation with the virus is monitored closely:

  • East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire
  • East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, and South Ayrshire
  • North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire
  • Edinburgh and Midlothian
  • Stirling and Clackmannanshire
  • Dundee

At the same time, from 00:01 on Saturday 5 June 2021, these 15 mainland local authorities will move to Level 1:

  • Highland and Argyll & Bute
  • Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray
  • Angus and Perth & Kinross
  • Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire
  • Falkirk
  • Fife
  • West Lothian and East Lothian
  • The Scottish Borders
  • Dumfries & Galloway
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Aberdeenshire and Moray

All islands currently in Level 1 will move to Level 0 at the same time due to sustained low numbers of cases. Everyone is encouraged to get tested to help stop the spread of COVID-19 by finding cases that might be missed, as around 1 in 3 people with COVID-19 don’t have symptoms.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said:

“I appreciate that today’s decisions will feel like a mixed bag. That reflects the fact that we are in a transition phase. No part of the country is going backwards today. Before the vaccines, that would have been impossible on case numbers like this. But the vaccines are changing the game. And that means we can still be optimistic about our chances of much more normality over the summer and beyond.

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Aberdeenshire and Moray

“As always, all of us have a part to play in beating this virus back. So please, stick with it, and each other.”

For local authority areas in Level 2, we will be providing support to soft play and other closed sectors that had expected to open, or operate in a different way from 7 June.  Full details will be provided by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance tomorrow.

Aberdeenshire and Moray on Level 1: what you can do

  • you can meet socially in groups:
    • of up to 6 people from 3 households in your home or theirs – and can stay overnight
    • of up to 8 people from 3 households in an indoor public place like a café, pub or restaurant
    • of up to 12 people from 12 households outdoors in your garden or a public place
  • under 12s do not count towards the total number of people or households meeting outside but do count towards the number of households indoors
  • you do not need to physically distance from family and friends in a private home
  • you can travel anywhere in Scotland in Levels 0, 1 or 2 but must not enter a Level 3 or 4 area unless for a permitted reason
  • you can travel anywhere in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands – before you travel you must check the travel rules in those countries
  • you can provide informal childcare, for example to look after a grandchild
  • up to 100 people can attend weddings and funerals
  • tradespeople can carry out any work and repairs in your home such as painting, decorating or repairing
  • you should work from home where possible

Aberdeenshire and Moray, What can open at Level 1

Places and business that can open at Level 1 include:

  • cafés, pubs and restaurants
  • all shops and stores
  • all close contact services including hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons
  • gyms, leisure centres and swimming pools
  • tourist accommodation
  • all visitor attractions
  • all public buildings like libraries and community centres
  • all entertainment (apart from nightclubs and adult entertainment)
  • stadiums and events – with maximum numbers

Aberdeenshire and Moray, What must close at Level 1

Places and business that must close at Level 1 include:

  • nightclubs and adult entertainment
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Peterhead Community Centre

Peterhead Community Centre – Test COVID-19

Peterhead Community Centre, test has been extended until the end of June

Residents of Peterhead and the surrounding should note that the community testing for those without Covid symptoms has been extended until the end of June.

You can still get tested and also pick up your own pack of lateral flow tests at the Rescue Hall on Prince Street from 8am-8pm.
It remains open to anyone who lives, works or studies in and around the town.

By taking the test, residents will be able to better protect their family, colleagues and the wider community by ensuring they are not spreading the virus to others without knowing it.

Peterhead Community Centre

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The Old Streets in Peterhead town

One of the old streets in Peterhead town used to be called Flying Gigs Wynd

One of the old streets in Peterhead town used to be called Flying Gigs Wynd.

Located between Broad Street and the Seagate, in the 18th century it was a narrow, twisty lane, largely populated by taverns, some of low repute!

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The old streets in Peterhead town

The most infamous of these was aptly named The Flying Gig and was owned by one Michael Flanagan, an avid buyer and seller of smuggled goods, indeed Peterhead’s most notorious smuggler, Alexander Elles, has a house which backed directly on to the lane.

Where does the name come from?

The most plausible suggestions are that it either refers to the small triangular pennant flag often seen at the top of sailing ships mast, this flag was often called a gig, or if could be that the name has become corrupted over time and was originally the Flying Jib Wynd.

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The old streets in Peterhead town

No one knows for sure, The Wynd is gone now and only the entrance remains, but I often wonder what went on down that lane every time I pass.

Credit by Kenny Bruce

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