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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Yorkshire Post Newspapers |
| Editor | Joseph Keith |
| Founded | 1890; 135 years ago (1890) |
| Political alignment | Labour |
| Headquarters | Whitehall Road,Leeds,West Yorkshire, England |
| Circulation | 3,920 (as of 2023)[1] |
| Sister newspapers | The Yorkshire Post |
| ISSN | 0963-2255 |
| Website | www |
TheYorkshire Evening Post (YEP) is a regional daily newspaper covering theCity of Leeds as well asBradford,Harrogate,Huddersfield andWakefield. Founded in 1890 it is published byYorkshire Post Newspapers.
Despite being having coverage and being sold acrossWest Yorkshire theYorkshire Evening Post traditionally provides close reporting onLeeds United andLeeds Rhinos as well as theYorkshire County Cricket Club team.
TheCity of Leeds has two further widely circulated local papers, being theWetherby News and theWharfedale and Airedale Observer.
The paper was first published in 1890 by theYorkshire Conservative Newspaper Company Limited who already published theBroadsheet newspaperThe Yorkshire Post. Its main competitor was theYorkshire Evening News which folded in 1963.
In 1925 theYorkshire Evening Post produced a separate edition for South Yorkshire printed simultaneously inDoncaster. It was closed in 1970 and became theDoncaster Evening Post until it folded in 1983.
In 1967 United Newspapers Ltd merged with Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Company Limited to formYorkshire Post Newspapers which enabled them to move to a new £5 million premises on Wellington Street in 1970.
Johnston Press bought theYorkshire Evening Post andThe Yorkshire Post in 2002 for £570 million. In 2012, Johnston Press merged theYorkshire Evening Post andThe Yorkshire Post with then editor Peter Charlton overseeing both papers and correspondents writing for both titles.
In the same year, Johnston Press announced that it would closeYorkshire Post Newspapers headquarters on Wellington Street and move printing to Dinnington near Sheffield while journalists moved to new offices on Whitehall Road.
In September 2013, it was announced the Wellington Street premises would be demolished. Preliminary demolition began in March 2014. The following month it was announced the tower would be spared.[2]
Starting in 1926, theYorkshire Evening Post sponsored motorcycle trial events onPost Hill, an area nearFarnley specifically acquired for this purpose.[3][importance?]
TheYorkshire Evening Post announced it would be the main shirt sponsor ofLeeds United for the 1991-92 season.
In his 2015 memoir, former reporterRevel Barker recalled the 1960s:
"During the cricket season...theEvening 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 theYorkshire 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."[6]
TheYorkshire Evening Post is widely available across theCity of Leeds as well as areas aroundHarrogate,Wakefield,Dewsbury, andIlkley. An online edition is also available.
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