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Tall Ships can give Aberdeen a sorely needed injection of positive energy

Ahoy mateys… let’s forget all the gloom and doom at the moment and look to the horizon for some rather excellent news. The Tall Ships are coming....

22.01.2024 3

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Don’t let hearing loss muffle your joie de vivre

Listen up – hearing aids are cool. I would say that, of course, seeing as I now have a natty pair behind my lugs. Finally. The “finally” is...

16.01.2024 3

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

It’s up to politicians – not charities or the public – to end homelessness in our cities and towns

Homelessness is something you expect to find in the centre of cities, not in a park in your own tranquil town. So, it’s fair to say my gob was...

09.01.2024 4

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

More warnings were needed for white-knuckle Storm Gerrit

Gosh, that’s what a life-threatening experience feels like, then? I didn’t like it – not one bit. After more than six decades on the planet and...

02.01.2024 4

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Scott Begbie: Captivating Fireballs show sense of community burns bright in Stonehaven

Well, that’s Christmas done, bar some leftover turkey sandwiches and the raspberry fondant Quality Streets no one wants. Now it’s time get stuck...

26.12.2023 3

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Show caring kindness to north-east neighbours this Christmas

So, this is Christmas (almost), and what have you done? Well, so far, I’ve bought a pile of presents for friends and family. (When I say me, I mean...

19.12.2023 3

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Scott Begbie: 200 civil servant jobs for Aberdeen should mean great news for the city centre

Just when you think Westminster has become a complete basket case, it goes and does something that makes sense. Of course, it is only right that...

12.12.2023 5

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Best time of the year for theatre is here – oh, yes, it is!

It’s now officially my favourite time of the year in the theatre world – oh, yes, it is! Because, of all the West End shows, top-flight comedians,...

04.12.2023 1

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Scott Begbie: Kintore Station success proves more rail links would get north-east on track

If you build it, they will come… And that’s exactly what has happened in Kintore. I mean, who would have thought that giving the good folk of this...

28.11.2023 10

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

£100 pavement-parking fines are the minimum selfish Aberdeen drivers should have to pay

I am always amazed at people who don’t understand basic rules in life – such as roads being for cars, and pavements being for people. So, I’m...

20.11.2023 1

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Caramac cancellation sent me and my sweet tooth down memory lane

It’s not often that a news story makes me give an audible gasp, but one headline had me going: “What the actual…?” No, not the return of David...

14.11.2023 5

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

M&S has got it right – we should all celebrate Christmas however we like

Finally, there’s a Christmas advert airing in November that doesn’t reduce me to a spluttering fit of “bah humbug”, but instead gets a...

06.11.2023 2

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

ScotRail going down the wrong track by cutting north-east trains

You know that thing about encouraging us all to leave our cars at home and take public transport to get where we want to go – could someone check to...

30.10.2023 1

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Storm Babet proved everyday heroes still deserve our utmost thanks

It felt like déjà vu all over again as Storm Babet battered into the north-east and devastation followed after. It wasn’t just because what we...

23.10.2023 2

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Jimmy Savile should not be back on prime-time TV – even when played by Steve Coogan

I have a question about The Reckoning. Why? Seriously, why on earth make a four-part series about the depraved monster who was Jimmy Savile? And why...

16.10.2023 2

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Scott Begbie: Cash in on the beauty of our Aberdeenshire and live every day like you’re on holiday

A few years ago, I was chatting at the Midsummer Beer Happening in Stonehaven with a couple who had come up from Leeds for the festival. They were...

10.10.2023 10

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

If the arts mean so much to Scotland, why won’t Holyrood help them?

You get so used to Westminster pulling screeching handbrake U-turns and reneging on promises that nothing comes as a surprise anymore – but it’s...

02.10.2023 2

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Scott Begbie: Aberdeen’s South Harbour is seriously helping to put north-east on the map for visitors

If you build it, they will come… We did, and they have. There can now be no doubting the benefits we are seeing thanks to the new South Harbour...

29.09.2023 2

The Press & Journal

Scott Begbie

Scott Begbie: Aberdeen’s South Harbour is seriously helping to put north-east on the map for visitors

If you build it, they will come… We did, and they have. There can now be no doubting the benefits we are seeing thanks to the new South Harbour...

26.09.2023 9

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

We all have to play a role in making Belmont Cinema reinvention a reality

Lights, camera, action… It looks like we are going back to the future for the Belmont Cinema. In a third-act twist, true fans of this iconic house...

19.09.2023 5

Evening Express

Scott Begbie

Scott Begbie: Dracula world premiere proves art is the lifeblood of Aberdeen

It is more than fitting that “the blood is the life” is a theme running through the heart of the stunning new version of Dracula that made its...

12.09.2023 4

Evening Express

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