The ''Telegraph & Argus'' is the daily

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for

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

, England. It is published six times each week, from Monday to Saturday inclusive. The newspaper has offices in Newhall Way, Bradford, from where its journalists work. Locally, the paper is known as the T&A. It also breaks news 24/7 on its website, which is viewed by more than 1.3 million users each month.

Overview

Founded in 1868, the paper was a

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until 1989 when it became tabloid. It features a range of news, features, sport, lifestyle articles, classified advertising and special supplements. The Telegraph & Argus is owned by

Newsquest Newsquest Media Group Ltd. is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom. It is owned by the American mass media holding company Gannett. It has 205 brands across the UK, publishing online and in print ...

, the second largest publisher of regional newspapers in the

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, which is owned by the American media empire

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for some decades. "Bradford" was dropped from the title in the 1930s, when the paper's circulation area spread across much of West Yorkshire. At one time it had branch offices in nine towns across the region, as well as an office in Morecambe, the Lancashire coastal resort to which many Bradfordians went to retire. At its height the paper's daily sale exceeded 130,000. It is now about one tenth of that figure. Thirty-six years ago a new wing with a skin of dark glass was added to house the printing presses, and these machines can be seen through the windows from the street. However, they are no longer to be seen working, since the newspaper further reduced it economic connection with the city in November 2014 by moving its printing operation to Middlesbrough, in Teesside, while making its Bradford press room staff redundant. Much of the newspaper's advertising content is now typeset in India. There are plans to sell the building itself now that the presses have been sold off piecemeal.

1936 Abdication Crisis

On 1 December 1936, it was reporter Ronald Harker from the ''Telegraph and Argus'' whose report on a speech by Bishop

Alfred Blunt Alfred Walter Frank Blunt (24 September 1879 – 12 June 1957) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the second Bishop of Bradford from 1931 to 1955 and is best known for a speech that exacerbated the abdication crisis of King Edward VIII. Birt ...

of Bradford casting oblique doubt on the piety of King

Edward VIII Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from 20 January 19 ...

, when referred to the

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, sparked the public controversy surrounding the

Abdication Crisis In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her secon ...

. News of Bishop Blunt's doubts also provoked contrary opinions, such as those of

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clergyman the Rev.

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, who subsequently conducted the wedding service of the

Duke of Windsor Duke of Windsor was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 March 1937 for the former monarch Edward VIII, following his abdication on 11 December 1936. The dukedom takes its name from the town where Windsor Castle, a ...

and

Wallis Warfield Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986), was an American socialite and wife of the former King Edward VIII. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused ...

. File:Telegraph and Argus 4643.jpg, The old ''Argus Weekly'' building, which is part of Britannia House File:Telegraph and Argus 4634.jpg, The now-disused T&A press hall, dating from the early 1980s File:BradfordIndM 043.jpg, Mock-vintage T & A van

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Overview

1936 Abdication Crisis

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