Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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  • Sports

275 Articles
over 2 years ago
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I've always wonder if I provoked Ben Elton into chasing down Benny Hill

The phone rang in the newspaper office. The voice on the other end belonged to the man who would come to dominate com...

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over 2 years ago
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Willie Waddell to Hibs: 'You lot better invest in steel shinpads for next time'

Someone somewhere, in the build-up to today’s semi-final, has almost certainly called Jack Ross a big-game hunter. Th...

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over 2 years ago
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Willie Waddell to Hibs: 'You lot better invest in steel shinpads for next time'

Someone somewhere, in the build-up to today’s semi-final, has almost certainly called Jack Ross a big-game hunter. Th...

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over 2 years ago
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Japan, the absolute spoilsports, then - whoosh - Hogg breaks the record

In the build-up to this game there were vivid words from Fraser Brown as he recalled the moment he realised the overh...

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over 2 years ago
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Something else The Tower has going for it is Emmett J. Scanlan as the rottenest, most worm-infest...

It’s a brave show which muscles in on Line of Duty territory and maybe a foolish one which does so without thunderous...

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over 2 years ago
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Our critic and his injured cocker spaniel give their verdict on the first day of DogTV – Aidan Smith

My wife says she can still hear the sickening thud and that she’ll never forgive herself.

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over 2 years ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Showtrial goes into the murky, murderous depths again, but thankfully not ...

BBC1’s new Sunday nighter Showtrial is billed “from the makers of Vigil” and I’m thinking, oh no, they wouldn’t, woul...

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over 2 years ago
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Why Fergie should be turning the hairdryer on Beckham again – Aidan Smith

When David Beckham scored his famous goal from the halfway line, a former toolmaker and trade union shop steward from...

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over 2 years ago
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Sean Lamont: "I always said I would never officially retire from Scotland and I haven't"

This is a good day for a chat with Sean Lamont because he’s stuck at home in Glasgow. “I don’t have the car – it’s at...

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over 2 years ago
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Few musical movements were silliier than New Romantic and no band of that ilk were sillier than S...

I pity the youth of today, with fewer pop groups to get tribal about.

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over 2 years ago
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Billy Connolly's Windswept & Interesting book review: Big Yin has grim tales but this is no miser...

Comedians like to tell stories about how acting the clown in childhood was a defence mechanism to distract and deter ...

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over 2 years ago
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Billy Connolly book reviewed: Darkness and laughs in Big Yin's new memoir

Comedians like to tell stories about how acting the clown in childhood was a defence mechanism to distract and deter ...

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