The young singers of the three Haddo Voices choirs are presenting a short fun concert next week at Haddo House Hall. After their appearances in the Aberdeen and North East Scotland Music Festival, the youngsters will be polished, confident, relaxed and ready to sing for friends and family and members of the public.
In addition to the three choirs, young members will also sing their solos from the festival.
This delightful occasion is to be held at Haddo House Hall on Friday 8th June at 7.00pm and tickets are on sale now at just £8 for adults and £5 for children under 16. Booking tickets in advance is advisable due to the popularity of the event. 01651 851111.
Tarves Hut project for young people got into business mode, running a car wash in Tarves School playground today, 2nd June. A steady queue of cars saw the enterprising younger folk, soap down and spray clear cars for £4 a time.
Customers were treated to coffee and biscuits while they waited. The weather was bright and sunny, making it a great day for all in fund-raising for the award winning HUT youth project based in their own portacabin within Tarves School grounds.
A woman who embezzled more than £160,000 from two oil firms has been jailed for more than two years.
Dawn Peter, 33, swindled the cash over three years while working as a payroll boss in Aberdeen.
The city’s sheriff court heard the mother-of-one fiddled tax returns to make 69 separate payments to herself and went shopping with the cash despite spiralling debts.
Peter’s marriage broke down when her husband discovered what she had been doing. He was initially incriminated in the scam but the charges were later dropped.
Her previous employers, Aberdeen-based RBG and Helix Energy Solutions, are now suing her for the total amount embezzled and she will have to sell the family home in a bid to pay it back.
Peter, of Tarves, Aberdeenshire, stole £70,540.08 from oil and gas exploration services firm RBG over a two-year period between October 2007 and February 2009.
She then went on to steal a further £91,307.70 from subsea construction services firm Helix Energy Solutions, between June 2009 and May last year.
She admitted the offences in March and sentence had been deferred.
Fiscal depute Neil Shand said Peter would enter her own bank account details into a computer system so that tax rebate payments would be made to her and change them back once the money had been transferred.
He said she had also brazenly emailed other payroll department staff and duped them into making transfers into her own bank account.
Mr Shand said she admitted to police what she had done after the missing cash came to light with her first employers and a probe was then launched at the second company.
He said: “She said she had debt collectors at her door, she had mortgage arrears and had been shopping when she shouldn’t have been.”
Defence lawyer Steven Borthwick said Peter had already handed over nearly £10,000 in compensation to the companies and anticipated she could hand over a potential £80,000 from the sale of her house.
He said: “Effectively Mrs Peter succumbed to temptation in the face of mounting debt and a debt situation which quite simply spiralled out of control.”
Mr Borthwick said the house keys had now been handed back to the mortgage lender.
He said Peter’s mother, who had been helping her through her financial struggles, had passed away since her crimes came to light.
He said: “To a very real extent, Mrs Peter blames herself for her mother’s death.”
Sheriff Malcolm Garden sentenced Peter to two years and four months behind bars.
He said: “Embezzlement by its very nature means taking money from someone with whom you’re in a position of trust. Clearly in this case both of your employers held you in sufficient regard to put you in a management position and that was a trust you abused for your own purposes.”
Do you feel that you are living a life that is limited by perceived barriers and boundaries? Are you someone who enjoys taking part in positive, life changing events? Would you like to do something awe-inspiring while also raising funds for your favourite charity?
Then why not join Be Free in this mind blowing fire walk experience.
In the seminar room participants wiil be taken on a journey guided by international motivational coach, Graeme Pyper. Over the years Graeme has taken countless numbers of people across the world through this experience.
Saturday 9th June
Registration for participants 3p.m
Fire walk approximately 5p.m(spectators welcome)
Ticket Information:
£50 (reduced rate for those raising money for charity)
Venue Detail:
Haddo House
Methlick, Ellon
Aberdeenshire
AB41 7EQ
