Aberdeen Evening Express

Evening Express

Front Page from 14 January 2012
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.
Publisher	Aberdeen Journals
Editor	Alan McCabe
Founded	November 1879
Headquarters	Aberdeen, Scotland
Circulation	30,929 (January - June 2015, 99.5% paid)
Sister newspapers	Aberdeen Citizen Scot-Ads The Press and Journal (Scotland)
Website	www.eveningexpress.co.uk

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.

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

The paper along with the Press and Journal is published by Aberdeen Journals Ltd. It has a circulation of 30,929 (99.5% paid).

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

Evening Express Sports Editor Charlie Allan, Former Aberdeen F.C. 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.

The paper was a staunch supporter of the building of a highly controversial golf resort by Donald Trump at the Menie Estate in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. The development was against the wishes of many local residents, and on an area designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. In 2007, the Evening Express (Scotland) ran pictures of seven councillors who voted against the application under the headline "You Traitors". In 2009, the newspaper announced it would not report anything said by the protest group "Tripping Up Trump", saying it was not "bona fide". In contrast, opponents complained, the DC Thomson papers in Aberdeen, the Evening Express and the Press and Journal gave a large amount of positive press to Donald Trump and the real estate development. In 2013, Press and Journal editor Damian Bates, who was formerly editor at the Evening Express, married the executive vice president and press spokeswoman for the Trump International project.