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20 January – Doug Padgett, 89, English cricketer (Yorkshire, national team). [33] 22 January Tommy Baldwin, 78, English footballer (Chelsea, Arsenal, Seattle Sounders). [34] Jack Jennings, 104, British World War II veteran, last survivor of the Burma Death Railway. [35] (death announced on this date)
The Yorkshire Post This page was last edited on 20 April 2022, at 07:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
As cricket correspondent for the Yorkshire Post, Kilburn wrote primarily about Yorkshire County Cricket Club. [9] His obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described his writing style: he wrote "with a fountain pen on press telegram forms at 60 or 80 words a shilling. At the close of play he immediately concluded his essay; he hardly ever ...
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]
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
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 ...
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 ...
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