The ''Grimsby Telegraph'' is a daily

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regional

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for the town of

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and the surrounding area that makes up

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including the rural towns of

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and Louth. The main area for the paper's distribution is in or around Grimsby and

Cleethorpes Cleethorpes () is a seaside town on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire, England with a population of 38,372 in 2020. It has been permanently occupied since the 6th century, with fishing as its original industry, then develo ...

. It is published six days a week (daily except Sundays) with a free sister paper ('' Grimsby Target'') being published once per week. The Grimsby Telegraph - geograph

Rear of Grimsby telegraph offices - geograph

History

The paper was founded in 1897 as the ''Eastern Daily Telegraph''. In 1899, it was renamed the ''Grimsby Daily Telegraph'', while in 1932 it became the ''Grimsby Evening Telegraph''. In 2002, it adopted its present name. On 26 October 1976, after the newspaper offices had been knocked down and rebuilt,

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visited

and opened the new offices. The plaque unveiled by Princess Anne was repaired back to its original state and can now be viewed at John Barkers Solicitors, after the law firm acquired the property in 2018. The newspaper began publication in "full-colour" print for the first time in 1995 for all editorial sections. In March 1999, the newspaper launched its ''www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk''

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to break stories from the ''Grimsby Evening Telegraph'' as well as its sister weeklies, the Grimsby Target. Due to economic downturn, restructuring and cost-cutting measures were put into place by the end of 2008,

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closed their regional printing arm – Harmsworth printing plant, several Northcliffe newspapers were printed at the Cleethorpes Road site in Grimsby including the Hull Daily Mail. After spending 118 years at offices located in Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, ''Grimsby Telegraph'' moved to new offices in October 2015, on the first floor of Heritage House on Fisherman's Wharf – next to Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre. As part of a Trinity Mirror restructure, Neil Hodgkinson, editor of the

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, was promoted to

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in February 2016 for

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and

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regions, overseeing the Grimsby Telegraph,

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and

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as well as the Mail. The weekly sister paper that is free, circulates under the name of ''Grimsby Post'' and ''Cleethorpes Post'' respectively. Due to public demand, the ''Grimsby Target'' was relaunched in September 2015, it had originally closed back in March 2007.

Editors

:1897–1897: Philip Reid :1897–1904: Alfred Martin :1904–1914: Wilfred Vere Doughty BA, JP :1914–1932: Thomas William Symonds :1932–1933: Harold Wild :1933–1938: Hugh Paterson Haddow OBE, MC :1938–1946: John Taylor Brown MC :1946–1960: James H Giles :1960–1966: James Humble :1966–1973: Jack Whitfield :1973–1982: Frank Shelton :1982–2002: Peter Moore :2002–2017: Michelle Laylor :2017–: Jamie Macaskill

Ownership and finances

In 2012,

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acquired owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust. In September 2015, Daily Mail and General Trust confirmed it had entered into talks to sell Local World to Trinity Mirror; the following month they reached an agreement with Local World's other shareholders to buy the company. Following the acquisition of the UK publishing assets of

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, including the ''

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'', '' Sunday Express,'' '' Daily Star and

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''; Trinity Mirror announced a plan to rebrand as Reach plc, subject to investor approval at a meeting scheduled for May 2018. Print sales fell to 19,824, a drop of 5.1

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year on year in the second half of 2014. Circulation in the second half of 2016 was 9.4 percent year on year to an average of 16,406 copies per night, offset mainly due to

growth.

Awards

''The Grimsby Telegraph'' won "Scoop of the Year" in 1994 at the

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. Junior reporter Clare Henderson for the newspaper discovered hours before the official announcement that

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was resigning as

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after his mother, who lived in Grimsby had been told by her son he was quitting, beating the country's top political journalists and Fleet Street's finest. In 2001, ''Grimsby Telegraph'' won the pan-European award for customer care and service. ''The Grimsby Telegraph'' was named regional best "Front page" of the year for 2007 at the

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awards.

Supplements

*Monday – 12-page bygones section *Tuesday – Young Stars youth sports section *Wednesday – Midweek Guide, what's-on section *Thursday – Motor Mail *Friday – Property Guide *Saturday – Weekend Guide, including TV listings, cinema information and local shows and gigs

References

External links

''Grimsby Telegraph'' website
{{Trinity Mirror Newspapers published in Lincolnshire Publications established in 1897 1897 establishments in England Mass media in Grimsby Northcliffe Media Daily newspapers published in the United Kingdom Newspapers published by Reach plc