Haddo House is gearing up for the fifth Haddo Arts Festival, a week long celebration of music, opera, comedy, literature and art.

9,000 spectators flocked to the 149th Aboyne Highland Games this summer, held, as is traditional, on the first Saturday in August.

A lost masterpiece by the 19th century French artist Paul Delaroche has been uncovered at Castle of Park, the former seat of the Gordons and Gordon-Duffs of Park, in Banffshire.