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Aberdeen Journals Ltd. is a newspaper publisher based in Aberdeen, Scotland. The company publishes The Press and Journal , the Evening Express , the Aberdeen Citizen and Scot-Ads newspapers. It was owned by Northcliffe Newspapers Group , which is owned by Daily Mail & General Trust from 1995 until 2006, when Aberdeen Journals was sold to Dundee ...
The Press and Journal is a daily regional newspaper serving northern and Highland Scotland including the cities of Aberdeen and Inverness. Established in 1747, it is Scotland's oldest daily newspaper, [ 2 ] and one of the longest-running newspapers in the world.
Articles in the Aberdeen Journal from early in the 19th century bemoan the increased use of lard in place of butter in traditional "butter rolls". [10] In 1917 when restrictions were placed on the sale of bread owing to World War I, butteries were exempt, enabling Aberdeen bakers to continue to produce rowies. The exemption was rescinded a few ...
Key objects in the collection include: The financial scandal of the 1720s, the South Sea bubble, with reports in the Weekly Journal or Saturday’s Post of how Parliament decided that if they left the country, the directors of the South Sea company "shall suffer death as a felon without benefit of clergy and forfeit to the King all his Lands, Goods and Chattels whatsoever."
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 1848 he joined the staff of the Aberdeen Journal, and eventually was appointed editor, a post which he held for about thirty years. [1] In Aberdeen, at Bonnymuir, Maryville, Friendville, Gordondale, and Richmondhill, his successive homes, he spent more than thirty years.
After attending the grammar schools of New Aberdeen and Old Aberdeen, Bulloch was a student at King's College, Aberdeen. [5] [6] He graduated M.A. in 1888; [3] and began his career as a journalist on the Aberdeen Free Press, aged 22, making an early reputation for vers de société and antiquarian research. [1] [5] [7]
The Aberdeen American News was founded as a weekly in 1885 by C.W. Starling and Paul Ware. Soon after, the Ordway Tribune, which had a power press, was moved to Aberdeen and combined with the News to produce a daily. In 1920, a competitor, the Aberdeen American, bought the News, and both were later purchased by the Aberdeen Journal. The Ridder ...