More sad news. Former Evening Express editor Dick Williamson has died. He was 86.

It was Dick who offered me a job as a sub editor at the EE back in the 1970s. We moved here from Paisley, and friends who came to visit and liked Newtonhill followed later. So many lives would have been very different if Dick had taken a different decision nearly 50 years ago!

Although my time at the EE didn’t end well (a year-long strike), I am very thankful to him. Rest in peace.