Stretching from Cove Bay, where the North Sea bites into rugged rockface, to the pastoral serenity of Benthoul and Anguston, dotted here and there with farms and woodlands and snug, moss-flecked cottages, the constituency of Aberdeen South is where natural beauty meets the fruits of industry.
When the oil boom hit in the 1970s, money began gushing like crude through a wellhead and Aberdeen was soon slick with prosperity.
Then as now, the city had its pockets of deprivation, not least the council estates of Torry blighted with stubborn inequalities, but oil and gas made Aberdeen a global hotspot for energy production
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