The Conservatives have lifted the suspension of a councillor who once wrote that he found some aspects of the Holocaust "fabricated".
Ryan Houghton - a candidate in the last general election in the Aberdeen North constituency - apologised in November for any hurt caused but insisted the comments had been taken out of context.
The Scottish Conservatives had condemned his comments, made during an online discussion seven years ago, as "unacceptable".
But on Monday it was confirmed that the party’s disciplinary committee found in favour of lifting the suspension.