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Michael Berry (26 September 1938 – 8 April 2009), known professionally as Lennie Bennett, was an English comedian and game-show host.. After attending the Palatine Secondary School in Blackpool, Bennett became a journalist for the West Lancashire Evening Gazette before becoming a professional hypnotist and appearing on the BBC light entertainment programme The Good Old Days in 1969. [4]
On 10 December 1956, it changed its title to the Northern Evening Telegraph and on 2 September 1963, the name changed again to Lancashire Evening Telegraph. The newspaper used full colour for the first time, on 11 November 1963, with spot colour introduced on 25 January 1965, and colour in classified advertising following on 19 March 1965. In ...
When he was interviewed about his poetry by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph in 1970, he was working as a weaver in a cotton mill in Oswaldtwistle, [3] the Lancashire town where James Hargreaves, the inventor of the revolutionary textile machine the spinning jenny, was born in the early 18th century. [11]
Individual Party Born Died Constituency(ies) represented Election(s) won Joe Ashton [2020 1]: Labour: 9 October 1933 30 March 2020 Bassetlaw: 1968 (by-election), 1970, 1974 I & II, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997
The only other evening paper to publish before The Bolton Evening News was the Shipping Gazette in South Shields. The first edition of The Bolton Evening News was founded by the Tillotson family and was published on Tuesday 19 March 1867 – with the front page entirely devoted to adverts. But the origins of the paper stretch way back to 1834 ...
Hilary Alexander, 77, New Zealand-born British fashion journalist (The Daily Telegraph). [39] Robin Cocks, 84, British geologist. [40] Phil Spalding, 65, English bassist, session musician. [41] 6 February Peter Allen, 76, English footballer (Leyton Orient, Millwall).
Barry Askew (13 December 1936 – 17 April 2012 [1]) was a British journalist, editor of several provincial papers, including the Lancashire Evening Post and briefly of the News of the World. Askew grew up in Bakewell, Derbyshire. [2] He became editor of the Matlock Meteor at the age of 21. [3]
Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, Cowgill attended Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. After leaving school he became a copy boy with the Lancashire Evening Post, where his father was a printer. In 1943, he joined the Royal Marines, and during the next four years he saw service in Southeast Asia. [1]