The assistant editor of the Aberdeen Evening Express has retired after 37 years with the paper. Ron Ferrier, (58), began his newspaper career as a cub reporter on the Montrose Standard. A year later he moved to the Evening Express
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Steve's Oasis run-in
An Aberdeen Evening Express reporter became the latest person to feel the wrath of Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher after a review of the group’s latest gig in the paper. Steven Henry’s report of the rock group’s Aberdeen concert didn’t go
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The Yorkshire Evening Post has reached its target of raising £2m for a local children’s hospice in just 18 months.The A Place For Us appeal was launched to build a new stand-alone unit to treat children with terminal diseases at
New regional editor is named by Trinity Mirror
A series of key editorial and training appointments – including a new editor for a Sunday regional – has been announced by Trinity Mirror. At Trinity Mirror Regionals’ Cardiff centre, Tim Gordon (right) has been promoted to editor of Wales
Gayle takes to the skies – ON a plane!
A brave Aberdeen Evening Express reporter has taken to the skies in a breath-taking charity stunt. Gayle Nicol, (25), took part in a wing-walk to raise to raise money for cancer research – standing on the top wing of a
Reporter is plane crazy!
Daredevil Gayle Nicol, a reporter on the Aberdeen Evening Express, is out to prove she is just plane crazy! The brave 25-year-old is preparing to take part in a charity wing-walk to raise money for cancer research. Gayle will stand
Best of both worlds
Journalist Jennifer Veitch is finding she has the best of both worlds in her latest role as associate editor of the Edinburgh Evening News. At just 28 years old, Jennifer has moved around the industry more than many journalists twice
Journalists' MMR turmoil
As the row over the MMR vaccine rages on, two regional journalists have been speaking about the hard decision they had to make to have their children vaccinated. In an open letter published in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph, reporter Lisa
Death of former sports editor
A former Aberdeen Evening Express sports editor has died. Ron Robertson, who retired in 1995, was diagnosed with leukaemia last October and died in hospital. He was 61. Ron had worked at the Evening Express for 40 years, joining the
Reporters make the Three Times Promise
A trio of life-saving reporters from the Aberdeen Evening Express have done their bit to boost the nation’s blood banks in support of a campaign by the Blood Transfusion Service. Tanya Johnson, Gayle Nicol and Lee MacKay all rolled up
Beehive buzzing as hivehits 200
The Beehive Online Community Network at thisisnorthscotland, which gives non-profit-making groups the chance to create and publish websites free of charge, has reached a landmark of 200 sites. Thumpers Pet Rabbit Rescue became the 200th site to join the network,
Is title un-Christian?
A campaign run by the Aberdeen Evening Express has been condemned by ministers for being un-Christian to criminals. The newspaper has been running the Smash the Vandals campaign since August following a wave of vandalism in the area, and aims
Successful end to Children 2000 cash drive
The Aberdeen Evening Express’s fundraising scheme, Children 2000, has come to another successful end after raising more than £27,000 for local groups. Readers of the Evening Express have collected 14m tokens printed in the paper for this year’s campaign, and
Former Express writer publishes new book
Former Aberdeen Evening Express journalist David Smith has written a new book chronicling the city through the 1950s and 1960s. The book, Aberdeen in the Fifties and Sixties, recalls some of the most memorable events in the recent history of
Evening Express interview leads to police investigation
Information obtained by the Aberdeen Evening Express led Grampian Police to investigate a charity organiser.
News in brief
An elderly war veteran, whose electric wheelchair was wrecked by vandals, has been overwhelmed by the generosity of readers of the Croydon Guardian.The newspaper told how the incident had left Fred Taylor a prisoner in his own home, prompting dozens