TheGrimsby Telegraph is a dailyBritish regionalnewspaper for the town ofGrimsby and the surrounding area that makes upNorth East Lincolnshire including the rural towns ofMarket Rasen andLouth. The main area for the paper's distribution is in or around Grimsby andCleethorpes. It is published six days a week (daily except Sundays) with a free sister paper (Grimsby Target) being published once per week.
Headquarters in May 2007Rear of the offices in March 2008
The paper was founded in 1897 as theEastern Daily Telegraph.[5] In 1899, it was renamed theGrimsby Daily Telegraph, while in 1932 it became theGrimsby Evening Telegraph.[6] In 2002, it adopted its present name.
On 26 October 1976, after the newspaper offices had been knocked down and rebuilt,Anne, Princess Royal visitedGrimsby and opened the new offices.[7] 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.[8]
The newspaper began publication in "full-colour" print for the first time in 1995 for all editorial sections.[9]
In March 1999, the newspaper launched itswww.thisisgrimsby.co.ukwebsite to break stories from theGrimsby Evening Telegraph as well as its sister weeklies, the Grimsby Target.[10]
Due to economic downturn, restructuring and cost-cutting measures were put into place by the end of 2008,Daily Mail and General Trust 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.[11][12]
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 toGrimsby Fishing Heritage Centre.[13]
In 2012,Local World acquired owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust.[29] In September 2015, Daily Mail and General Trust confirmed it had entered into talks to sell Local World to Trinity Mirror;[30] the following month they reached an agreement with Local World's other shareholders to buy the company.[31]
Print sales fell to 19,824, a drop of 5.1per cent year on year in the second half of 2014.[33] Circulation in the second half of 2016 was down 9.4 per cent year on year to an average of 16,406 copies per night, offset mainly due towebsite growth.[34]
The Grimsby Telegraph won "Scoop of the Year" in 1994 at theBritish Press Awards.[35] Junior reporter Clare Henderson for the newspaper discovered hours before the official announcement thatNorman Lamont was resigning asChancellor of the Exchequer 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.[36][37]
In 2001,Grimsby Telegraph won the pan-European award for customer care and service.[38]
The Grimsby Telegraph was named regional best "Front page" of the year for 2007 at thePress Gazette awards.[39]
