The ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by

Yorkshire Post Newspapers Yorkshire Post Newspapers are publishers of the '' Yorkshire Post'' and '' Yorkshire Evening Post''. They were based at offices in Wellington Street, but in November 2012 they moved to Number 1 Leeds, Whitehall Road, where they took four floors i ...

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, England. The paper provides a regional slant on the day's news, and traditionally provides close reporting on

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and Leeds Rhinos as well as the

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team. The newspaper generally takes a liberal/centre left position. Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in

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and

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as well. The

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has two further widely circulated local papers, being the ''

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'' and the '' Wharfedale and Airedale Observer''. For many years, the ''Evening Post'' produced a separate edition for South Yorkshire printed simultaneously in

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. In 1970 that was converted into the now-closed ''Doncaster Evening Post''. Starting in 1926, the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' sponsored motorcycle trial events on

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, an area near Farnley specifically acquired for this purpose.

Move from Leeds

In February 2012 Johnston Press announced that printing of ''The Yorkshire Post'' and ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' in Leeds would be switched to their plant at Dinnington near

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire ...

and the Wellington Street printing facility closed. In September 2013, it was announced the Wellington Street premises would be demolished as journalists had already moved out. Preliminary demolition began in March 2014; April 2014 it was announced the tower would be spared.

Memoir

In his 2015 memoir, former reporter Revel Barker recalled the 1960s: "During the cricket season...the ''Evening Post'' would be on the streets at 10.30 a.m. The 'First' would be out about noon, the 'Final' at 2 p.m., the 'One-star final' around 3.30 and the 'Late Night Final' about 4.30. the Post was selling around 250,000 copies a night... nowadays there is only one edition, written and produced the night before and printed in Sheffield, 36 miles away" (In 1963) "our main competition the ''Yorkshire Evening News'' succumbed to economic pressures and folded to merge with the YEP – for a brief time creating a daily circulation close to half a million copies."''The Last Pub in Fleet Street'', Palatino Publishing, 2015, Revel Barker,

Availability

The ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' is widely available across the

as well as areas around

Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudd ...

and Ilkley. An online edition is also available. Yorkshire Evening Post buildings

References

External links

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YEP Community WebsitesDigitised copies of the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'', 1890-1904
at the

British Newspaper Archive The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London, ...

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