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The Yorkshire Post – “Yorkshire’s national newspaper” – started life as the Leedes Intelligencer in 1754, making it one of the oldest of the United Kingdom’s daily newspapers. It didn’t become a daily until 1866, however, when it changed to its present title.

It’s a broadsheet, and since the Manchester Guardian graduated to national level in 1959 has the reputation of being the weightiest English regional daily newspaper. It’s unusual among regional dailies in being published in the morning rather than the evening.

It circulates throughout all the traditional county of Yorkshire, and also in the unitary authorities of North Lincolnshire (Scunthorpe) and North-East Lincolnshire (Grimsby). There are four editions:

  • North Yorkshire
  • West Riding
  • Hull & East Riding
  • South Yorkshire

Its political and social stance are both conservative; the owning company, Yorkshire Post Newspapers, used to be known as Yorkshire Conservative Newspapers Ltd, and the YP strongly opposed the ban on hunting. The first issue of the newly-renamed paper in July 1866 contained a statement of intent that it would be “at once conservative and progressive, a foe to democracy and revolution, but the firm friend of all constitutional reform”.

Yorkshire Post Newspapers (which also publishes the Yorkshire Evening Post) is part of the Johnston Press group.

Website: http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/
Address: Yorkshire Post
PO Box 168
Wellington Street
LEEDS
LS1 1RF
Tel: 0113 243 2701
Fax: 0113 238 8537
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