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Moray Council’s £2.4 million dredger has failed to hit its annual target of operational days since launching five years ago.
The Selkie was commissioned as Scotland’s only local authority-owned dredger to drive down maintenance bills for harbours.
However, now it has been confirmed the dredger has never reached its 60-day annual target for maintaining Moray ports amid accusations it is a “white elephant”.
Moray Council dredger fails to hit annual target once since launching five years ago
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Moray Council: Concerns tourism grants are being missed
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‘A jewel of a person’
In December last year Mr Shepherd celebrated his diamond wedding anniversary with his wife Dorothy.
The couple met in Macduff in 1959 before setting up home in Cullen shortly after they were married – growing to a family of three children, seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Buckie councillor Gordon Cowie, who is close to the family, said: “I knew Ron long before I became a councillor, it was actually him who encouraged me to stand.
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Ron Shepherd cut the ribbon on a new footbridge in Cullen in 2016, which he campaigned for to be built.
“His guidance was second to none, I know others have benefitted from it too.