ALMOST three decades after a Moray fish processing company closed its doors, more than 100 former employees gathered to remember Lossiemouth in its hey day of being a thriving fishing port.

ALTHOUGH it was well before the age of mechanical excavators and tower cranes, Burghead in 1805-08 must have appeared more like an extended builders' yard, with scores of masons, labourers and horses, than a spacious setting for a Georgian new town.

TWO hundred years ago this month, on May 18, 1808, the 'Aberdeen Journal' carried the following town-founding advertisement:

TRIBUTE has been paid to Dutch villagers who have continued to honour the memory of a Moray airman killed along with crewmates when his Lancaster bomber crashed during World War Two.

KEBAB sticks and flour have helped graveyard volunteers uncover some of the mysteries of Elgin Cathedral.

AN historic treasure marking a Moray community's thanks to its cathedral caretaker for his unusual discovery, is one of the glittering highlights of a national exhibition.

A ROBERT Burns' festival taking place in the Utah desert will ring with the emotive words of a Moray-born poet.

Sir, – This is the photograph of the Burrell traction engine which was owned by my grandfather, George McKay, Mains of Tannach, from 1906 until 1940, when he retired.

PEOPLE with memories of Moray from a bygone age are being invited to log on to the internet and cast their critical eye over a new book before it goes to press.

HE ROSE from humble beginnings to become prime minister of Great Britain twice, and the country's first Socialist leader.

FROM three friends who wanted to stay in their caravan for six months to a world-famous centre for economic, environmental, social and spiritual sustainability.

FOLLOWING the 6th Seaforths' part in the victory at Beaumont Hamel on November 13, 1916, they were expecting a rest – but instead found themselves embarking on one of the most dispiriting periods of their entire service on the Western Front.

A PRISONER of war is to make a poignant final return journey to Moray with one last wish still to be fulfilled.

A HEADY air of nostalgia will fill the corridors and classrooms of Elgin High next weekend when their 30th birthday celebrations get underway.

A LITTLE-known period in Moray's history has been uncovered to form part of an exhibition marking the Highlands' links with the slave trade.

IT IS regarded as one of the greatest Scottish novels of all time; now 'Sunset Song' looks set to be enjoyed by a far wider audience, thanks to the help of a Moray school teacher.

MORAY'S renowned collection of reptile fossils will come under the microscope at a major conference next month.

AN RAF serviceman has written a book highlighting the daring endeavours of the first RAF squadron to attack the heart of Nazi Germany.

HE WAS Scotland's greatest engineer.... and left an indelible mark on Moray.

TUCKED away in a quiet corner of Elgin cemetery stands a large granite obelisk – a proud memorial erected by the family of a man credited as being the town's greatest war hero.

EXCAVATION work being carried out in the shadow of Elgin Cathedral has unearthed traces of the town's beer-loving past.

A BERMUDA reader has taken a particular interest in a recent 'Echoes’ picture of Primary 6 class of 1947 of Springfield School, Elgin.

THE winning story in our inaugural writing competition, organised by ‘The Northern Scot’ in conjunction with Yeadons Bookshop and Elgin Writers, was ‘First Love’, the amusing, and somewhat raunchy, tale of a raw recruit in World War II and his ‘affair’ with his rifle.

THE great Elgin City team of the early 1930s has been revisited after a cigarette card bearing the team photo was unearthed.