Aberdeen City Council's Waste Aware Team has come up with some seasonal advice on how to have a green Christmas: 2008/12/15 00:00:00

15/12/08 Plans for a new garden centre on the outskirts of Aberdeen have been conditionally approved by the city council's planning committee. 2008/12/15 00:00:00

Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall on a Thursday this year, so Aberdeen City Council's waste team intends to provide alternative collections for those whose bins would normally be emptied on those days. 2008/12/15 00:00:00

An exhibition which explores the African slave trade through its connections with Aberdeen City and Shire is on display in Aberdeen's Central Library. 2008/12/15 00:00:00

One westbound lane of the A944 dual carriageway between the Kingswells and Westhill roundabouts will be closed between 7pm and 6am from December 17 to 20 while BT engineers work to repair a phone line fault. 2008/12/16 00:00:00

It's that time of year again. Check out the best and worst videos from 2008.

Things to do on January 1: Sleep off the previous night's party, watch college football "championships," grab the first of 12 downloadable tunes.The New Jersey punk veterans already hinted at plans to release a new album each month in 2009

Chan Marshall's marriage to an idealized Memphis sound has been a rocky one, wherein she steals the best of it and it, in return, steals the best of her. Neither partner comes out a winner. The fact that the songs

The National is making plans to record a few more anthems.

Flight of the Conchords, that's the show, not the band, returns to television next month.

Who better to remind the world of the evils of biological warfare this Christmas season than those grizzled, middle-aged head-bangers of Metallica?

A Harvard law professor and some of his students are set to help a downloader construct a case against the RIAA.

Weezer's recordings of Christmas tunes are headed to iTunes, just in time for Christmas, too. Imagine that coincidence.

In the time-honored American tradition of ranking things at the end of the year, then listing them in reverse sequential order as a means to achieve some form of suspense, Aversion presents its 2008 Year's Best Albums list. Along the

It's always a little comforting to realize that no matter what happens to you this holiday season, you'll never be as lame as Billy Idol. Seriously, it's impossible to sink lower than this video.

The Sydney Morning Herald announced today that Disney and Walden Media are looking for a new location to shoot The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and that Australia is on the list of possibilities.Following The Lion, The Witch And The

Recommended By 2000, Disney had proven the direct-to-video market to be surprisingly valuable, especially in the sequel department. Follow-ups to "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast" proved rather lucrative, while new adventures based on recent "lesser" hits "Pocahontas" and "Hercules"