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''Market Rasen Mail'' is a weekly newspaper which serves
In about 1870 the newspaper was sold to Thomas Hulme Whittingham. Whittingham himself edited the paper and installed new printing equipment in his premises on Queen Street. After his death his widow and sons ran the paper until Thomas Baty was taken on as editor in 1905. In 1915 ownership was transferred to the new company Whittingham & Baty Ltd. Baty was succeeded as editor by E. W. Chapman and then C. E. Sharpe.
In 1947 the Mail was bought by the editor Charles Edward "Teddy" Sharpe, who remained associated with the title until his death in 1983. He modernised the business, replacing the Victorian printing presses and expanded it by buying the '' Horncastle News'' and the printing company
''Market Rasen Mail'' Homepage
Mass media in Lincolnshire Publications established in 1856 1856 establishments in England Newspapers published by Johnston Press Market Rasen
Market Rasen
Market Rasen ( ) is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, approximately north-east from Lincoln, east from Gainsborough, 14 miles (23 km) west of Lo ...
, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...
, England and the surrounding area.
According to data from analysts JICREG, weekly circulation of ''Market Rasen Mail'' was 4,097 between January and June 2009, and 3264 in the second half of 2012.
History
It was founded in 1856 by Richard Hackett (1823 – 1892), the son of a local farmer. At the age of 18 Hacket was working as an apprentice to a printer in Queen Street, Market Rasen. After a period as a bookseller in London, he returned to Market Rasen to establish the ''Market Rasen Weekly Mail and Lincolnshire Advertiser''. The first edition was published on 20 September 1856.
In about 1870 the newspaper was sold to Thomas Hulme Whittingham. Whittingham himself edited the paper and installed new printing equipment in his premises on Queen Street. After his death his widow and sons ran the paper until Thomas Baty was taken on as editor in 1905. In 1915 ownership was transferred to the new company Whittingham & Baty Ltd. Baty was succeeded as editor by E. W. Chapman and then C. E. Sharpe.
In 1947 the Mail was bought by the editor Charles Edward "Teddy" Sharpe, who remained associated with the title until his death in 1983. He modernised the business, replacing the Victorian printing presses and expanded it by buying the '' Horncastle News'' and the printing company Mortons of Horncastle
Mortons of Horncastle Ltd is a publishing, events and printing company based in Horncastle in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England.
History
At the age of 21, William Kirkham Morton introduced mechanical typesetting to the small market-town of H ...
. In 2001 the Mail was bought by Johnston Press.
2008 Earthquake
One of the biggest stories reported by the paper was the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake, measuring 5.2 on theRichter Scale
The Richter scale —also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale—is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 ...
, when Market Rasen was at the epicentre. Reporters responded with a multi-media package of articles, videos, eye-witness accounts and reader submissions. and subsequent updates on the same site
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Mass media in Lincolnshire Publications established in 1856 1856 establishments in England Newspapers published by Johnston Press Market Rasen