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The newspaper broke the story of the Edward VIII abdication crisis under the editorship of Arthur Mann. [7] In 1939, The Yorkshire Post absorbed a rival, the Leeds Mercury, which was founded in 1718 and was liberal in comparison to the Leeds Intelligencer from the late 18th century, and under the editorship of Edward Baines and his son (also named Edward Baines). [8]
The company acquired the Leeds Mercury in 1923 and merged it with the Yorkshire Post in 1939. The company was renamed "Yorkshire Post Newspapers" in 1969. The first chairman was William Beckett-Denison, from a Leeds banking family (Beckett's Bank was founded in 1774 and acquired by Westminster Bank in 1921). Successive chairmen were members of ...
The paper was first published in 1890 by the Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Company Limited who already published the Broadsheet newspaper The Yorkshire Post. 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 ...
Bradford Star (1981-2000) [1]; Harrogate Herald (1847–1957), pub. Robert Ackrill. [2]Hull Portfolio, radical newspaper of James Acland, founded c.1831.; The Hull Packet and East Riding Times [3] / The Hull Packet Humber Mercury or Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Advertiser [4] / Yorkshire Advertiser
Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. [2] [3] Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the i, The Scotsman, the Yorkshire Post, the Falkirk Herald, and Belfast's The News Letter.
Scottish edition of UK Newspaper: Broadsheet: 22,172 The Times (Scottish edition) National – Quality: Morning: Scottish edition of UK Newspaper: Compact: 19,994 Scottish Daily Express: National – Mid Market: Morning: Scottish edition of UK Newspaper: Tabloid: 65,689 Scottish Daily Mail: National – Mid Market: Morning: Scottish edition of ...
Breakdown of UK daily newspaper circulation, 1956 to 2019. At the start of the 19th century, the highest-circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom was the Morning Post, which sold around 4,000 copies per day, twice the sales of its nearest rival. As production methods improved, print runs increased and newspapers were sold at lower prices.
Articles relating to the publishing company Yorkshire Post Newspapers (1865-) and its publications. The company is a subsidiary of JPIMedia.