Mrs Whyte - who was a 40-year-old mother-of-eight at the time - was on New Aberdour beach in Aberdeenshire when she saw the Dundee steamer William Hope drifting towards rocks after its engine failed.

"It was exciting but very, very busy," said Mrs Frost, who had grown up in the fishing village of New Aberdour, Aberdeenshire. She was working at Sandringham when the Queen's father, King George ...

Aberdeenshire Council’s mothballing procedure is triggered ... five schools in the region have been closed while a further five have been mothballed. New Aberdour School (closed in May 2009, before ...