Aberdeen councillors probed over Marischal Square plans

Twenty Aberdeen councillors are being investigated over the Marischal Square development.

Muse Developments was chosen to deliver the new £107m look for the site of the former Aberdeen City Council St Nicholas House headquarters.

Muse wants to create offices, shops, restaurants and a hotel on the site.

The office of Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland said it had received a complaint against 20 Aberdeen councillors.

It said there would be no further comment until the case had concluded.

In 2011, more than 1,000 council staff vacated the 14-storey St Nicholas House building, erected in 1968, for the newly-refurbished Marischal College building.