The ''Express & Echo'' is a paid-for newspaper for Exeter, England and the surrounding area.

History

The ''Express & Echo'' was established in 1904 as the result of a merger between the ''Western Echo'' and the ''Devon Evening Express'', which was founded in 1864. In 1909 it contained a column titled "Womanland" which dealt with various topics including suffrage protests. It was written by Exeter's first woman councillor (in time) Edith Splatt. The paper was published on green-tinted

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until 1930. It switched from

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to tabloid format in 1979. It was published daily until September 2011, when it became a weekly newspaper. In 2012,

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acquired previous owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust.Daily Mail sells regional newspapers to Local World
BBC News, 21 November 2012 Local World was then acquired by

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. From February 2015 the paper began publishing weekly on Thursdays.

References

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