Staying in the area means experiencing the best of both, especially at Christmas. There's a hot chocolate trail to follow in town, the Banff Christmas Market, and the 'In Search of Christmas ...

He told BBC Scotland News he was "thankful and grateful" to have succeeded in his ambition to be home by Christmas. Apprentice builder Adam, from Banff, was a passenger in a car which crashed in ...

A community group that brightens two towns over the festive period has made an appeal for new volunteers to help out.

The highest temperature ever recorded for Christmas Eve was 15.5C in Aberdeen and Banff in Scotland. A cloudy, dry and very mild Christmas Eve for most, but drizzly rain in places, especially ...

This is slightly lower than the warmest Christmas Eve on record - when a high of 15.6C was measured at Gordon Castle in Banff and in Craibstone, Aberdeenshire, in 1931. Meanwhile, in the Midlands ...