Tenders sought for roof upgrade at north-east school

The search is on to find a construction firm to upgrade a north-east school’s roof.

Aberdeenshire Council could spend as much as £125,000 to upgrade Fraserburgh Academy’s roof and has launched a tender to find a suitable contractor.

The work is part of routine improvements being made to the facility and would include upgrades to the high-level windows in the schools gym.

A winner of the contract will be announced on December 30.

In 2011, a large section of roofing over the school’s home economics department was torn off when hurricane-force winds swept through the north-east.

The secondary was closed for two days while council engineers made repairs.

A year later, a man scaled the roof to stage a six-hour protest to highlight the problems he had with benefit payments.

At the top of the school’s science block, he unfurled a banner which read: “Starved and persecuted by the DHSS”.

It had cost nearly £2,400 to have two fire service vehicles and an ambulance on standby at the school during the incident.

Police negotiators were also deployed at the scene.