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In 1995, the Lancashire Evening Telegraph became the first regional newspaper in Britain to put daily, updated news on the internet. [citation needed] In February 2006, in order to cut costs, the company announced it was to close its district offices in the Lancashire towns of Burnley, Accrington and Darwen.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Stephen Grimason, 87, Northern Irish journalist and editor of BBC News NI. [183] (death announced on this date) Brian McCardie, 59, Scottish actor (Rob Roy, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Ellie Parker) and writer. [184] 29 April Christian, 80, Scottish singer and entertainer. [185]
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]
The Bolton News – formerly the Bolton Evening News – is a daily newspaper and news website covering the towns of Bolton and Bury in north-western England. Published each morning from Monday to Saturday and online every day, it is part of the Newsquest media group, a subsidiary of the U.S media giant Gannett Inc.
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]
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).
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]