The ''Express & Echo'' is a paid-for newspaper for

Exeter Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...

and the surrounding area.

History

The ''Express & Echo'' was established in 1904 as the result of a merger between the ''Western Echo'' and the ''Devon Evening Express'', which was founded in 1864. In 1909 it contained a column titled "Womanland" which dealt with various topics including suffrage protests. It was written by Exeter's first woman councillor (in time) Edith Splatt. The paper was published on green-tinted

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until 1930. It switched from

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format in 1979. It was published daily until September 2011, when it became a weekly newspaper. In 2012, Local World acquired previous owner

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from Daily Mail and General Trust.Daily Mail sells regional newspapers to Local World
BBC News, 21 November 2012 Local World was subsequently acquired by Trinity Mirror. From February 2015 the paper began publishing weekly on Thursdays.

References

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