Evening Express (Scotland)

Evening Express (Scotland)

The "Evening Express" is a daily local newspaper serving the city of Aberdeen in Scotland. It was first published in November 1879.

It was a tabloid during the 1930s to the 1950s until it resumed a broadsheet in November 1958, six days a week. By September 1989, The Saturday edition returned to a tabloid with the broadsheet formula during the weekdays. It became a tabloid six days a week in February 1995.

There was also a Saturday night paper called the Green Final which ended in June 2002 after many years in which it was printed on green paper instead of the usual white. It showed progress on how Aberdeen FC did in their matches as well as a full check on the day's football results. For many years, the Green Final was a broadsheet until it became a tabloid from 1988 till the end. The name occasionally reappears when the paper features junior football reports.

The paper along with the "Press and Journal" is published by Aberdeen Journals Ltd. It has a circulation of approximately 60,000 copies.

Former winner of Big Brother Cameron Stout has a weekly column alongside Moreen Simpson, Susan Welsh, Scott Begbie the entertainments editor, Jonathan Lee, former Grampian TV presenter Frank Gilfeather and former Aberdeen Lord Provost John Reynolds. In the Weekend section, every Saturday, columnist Jane Grant writes from the US and TV critic Ewan Cameron gives his rundown on the week's programmes.

"Evening Express" Sports Editor Charlie Allan, Former Aberdeen FC footballers Stewart McKimmie and Joe Harper have columns in the sport pages. Another former Don Willie Miller has recently joined them. Sports reporter Sean Wallace also has a weekly column.

To celebrate its 40,000th edition, the Evening Express held a competition for one of its lucky readers to win 40,000 one penny pieces - totalling £400.

List of Evening Express journalists

Listed below are the names of the journalists who regularly write for the Evening Express:

* Damian Bates (Editor)
* Richard Prest (Deputy Editor)
* Alan McCabe (Assistant Editor)
* Craig Walker (News Editor)
* Karen Allan (Deputy News Editor)
* Alan Paterson (Picture Editor)
* Marie-Claire Jones (Features Editor)
* Scott Begbie (Entertainments Editor)
* David Ewen (Chief Reporter)
* Fiona McWhirter (Crime Reporter)
* Neil Evans (Political Reporter)
* Andrew Whitaker (Political Reporter)
* Lynn Kernan
* Kirsty Taylor
* Moreen Simpson
* Sally Hind

* Angela Wilson
* Sally McDonald
* Claire Brooks
* Kevin Duguid
* Alan Majury
* Catherine Shanks
* Kelly Wilson
* Alison Rennie
* Callum Main
* Andrew Moir (Sports)
* Andy Groundwater (Sports)
* Sean Wallace (Sports)
* Ross McTavish (Sports)
* Laurna Robertson (Counter)
* Donna Cooper (Counter)
* Margaret Morrison (Counter)

Fallout with Aberdeen Football Club players

As of February 29th 2008 the players of Aberdeen Football Club stated that they would no longer give interviews to the Evening Express. The players cited cited perceived negative reporting on the part of the paper as their reason for the move. Sports Editor Charlie Allan proposed a meeting with Scott Severin, but this was declined by the captain. Allan instead met with club media officer Dave Macdermid, who gave a short interview to the Evening Express.

Aberdeen FC manager Jimmy Calderwood did not observe the silence of his players, saying that he felt the players had made a mistake in ceasing to communicate with the Evening Express. He did however state, as did Macdermid, that the players had taken particular offence to the paper's speculation that a number of them would be leaving the club in the summer. Calderwood said that the Evening Express had been "naughty" to do so.

In early March the ban on giving interviews to the Evening Express was lifted, and the players resumed normal communications with the paper.

ee also

*List of newspapers in Scotland

External links

* [http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/ Evening Express] , the web site of the Evening Express


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