The ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' (''YEP'') is a regional daily newspaper covering the

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. Founded in 1890 it is published by

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. Despite being having coverage and being sold across

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the

Yorkshire Evening Post The ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' (''YEP'') is a regional daily newspaper covering the City of Leeds. Founded in 1890 it is published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers, National World. Despite being having coverage and being sold across West Yorkshire ...

traditionally provides close reporting on

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and

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as well as the

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team. The

has two further widely circulated local papers, being the ''

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'' and the '' Wharfedale and Airedale Observer''.

History

The paper was first published in 1890 by the Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Company Limited who already published the

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''. Its main competitor was the ''Yorkshire Evening News'' which folded in 1963. In 1925 the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' produced a separate edition for South Yorkshire printed simultaneously in

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. It was closed in 1970 and became the ''Doncaster Evening Post'' until it folded in 1983. In 1967 United Newspapers Ltd merged with Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Company Limited to form

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which enabled them to move to a new £5 million premises on Wellington Street in 1970.

Johnston Press Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the '' i'', ''The Scotsman'', the ''Yorkshire Post'', the ''Falkirk Herald'', and Belfast's ''The News Letter'' ...

bought the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' and ''

'' in 2002 for £570 million. In 2012, Johnston Press merged the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' and ''

'' with then editor Peter Charlton overseeing both papers and correspondents writing for both titles. In the same year, Johnston Press announced that it would close

headquarters on Wellington Street and move printing to Dinnington near Sheffield while journalists moved to new offices on Whitehall Road. In September 2013, it was announced the Wellington Street premises would be demolished. Preliminary demolition began in March 2014. The following month it was announced the tower would be spared.

Sponsorships

Starting in 1926, the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' sponsored motorcycle trial events on

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, an area near Farnley specifically acquired for this purpose. The ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' announced it would be the main shirt sponsor of

for the 1991-92 season.

Former journalists

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(1929–2009), author of ''

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'' *

Barbara Taylor Bradford Barbara Taylor Bradford (10 May 1933 – 24 November 2024) was a British Americans, British-American best-selling novelist. Her debut novel, ''A Woman of Substance (novel), A Woman of Substance'', was published in 1979 and sold over 30 mi ...

(1933–2024), author of '' A Woman of Substance'' *

Mark Knopfler Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born 12 August 1949) is a British musician. He was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits from 1977 to 1995, and he is the one of the two members who stayed during the band's existence ...

(1949-) British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer (Junior reporter)

Memoir

In his 2015 memoir, former reporter Revel Barker recalled the 1960s: "During the cricket season...the ''Evening Post'' would be on the streets at 10.30 a.m. The 'First' would be out about noon, the 'Final' at 2 p.m., the 'One-star final' around 3.30 and the 'Late Night Final' about 4.30. the Post was selling around 250,000 copies a night... nowadays there is only one edition, written and produced the night before and printed in Sheffield, 36 miles away" (In 1963) "our main competition the ''Yorkshire Evening News'' succumbed to economic pressures and folded to merge with the YEP – for a brief time creating a daily circulation close to half a million copies."''The Last Pub in Fleet Street'', Palatino Publishing, 2015, Revel Barker,

Availability

The ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' is widely available across the

as well as areas around

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, and

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. An online edition is also available. Yorkshire Evening Post buildings

References

External links

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YEP Community WebsitesDigitised copies of the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'', 1890–1988
at the

British Newspaper Archive The British Newspaper Archive website provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library's Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London ...

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