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Scott BegbieEvening Express |
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...