Yorkshire Evening Post

j.c.d. · Post by **j.c.d.** » Sat 23 Aug, 2014 10:07 am

On my visits to Leeds going to buy a morning paper I see the Y.E.P. on the stands at 10am. Many years ago this paper had the 3. 30. horse racing result in the stock press. and if I bought the later edition it had the 4.30. result in. plus it contained news from that day unlike this present day rag. Is that the same fat greedy "Oliver" still going around guzzling Freebie meals ?

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat 23 Aug, 2014 10:25 am

My understanding is that "Oliver" (restaurant reviewer/s) and Oliver Cross are not the same.

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 23 Aug, 2014 10:48 am

j.c.d. wrote: On my visits to Leeds going to buy a morning paper I see the Y.E.P. on the stands at 10am. Many years ago this paper had the 3. 30. horse racing result in the stock press. and if I bought the later edition it had the 4.30. result in. plus it contained news from that day unlike this present day rag. Is that the same fat greedy "Oliver" still going around guzzling Freebie meals ? If you go far enough back in this thread jcd, you'll find discussion which re-named it the YPP for this very reason!

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Mon 25 Aug, 2014 5:39 pm

j.c.d. wrote: On my visits to Leeds going to buy a morning paper I see the Y.E.P. on the stands at 10am. Many years ago this paper had the 3. 30. horse racing result in the stock press. and if I bought the later edition it had the 4.30. result in. plus it contained news from that day unlike this present day rag. Is that the same fat greedy "Oliver" still going around guzzling Freebie meals ? In days long gone the two papers produced in Leeds at that time had "stop-press vans" which used to attend sporting events at Headingley cricket/rugby ground, Elland Road and any big events happening around the city, Roundhay Park etc. The paper sellers would take their unsold copies to the vans where they would have the racing results, latest cricket scores/football scores and stock-market prices inserted in the stop-press column, plus any other news deemed important enough to be inserted. This was done by running the unsold copies through a small printing press in the van. I have seen men buy a newspaper just to look at the stop-press scores and then immediately screw it up and throw it away. In those days the last edition sold by the vendors on the streets was about 6.30. p.m. We used to put our first edition on the streets by about 11.30. a.m. back then in the 50's/60's.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:43 pm

In a 'The Gossip' section of the 'Leeds Retro' August 1995 feature on page 16 of today's YEP it states "Look North presenter Judith Stamper, pictured above, left her job after more than a decade.". The picture was of Michael Portillo (correctly given as Portillo in the main item but incorrectly as Portilo in the photo caption) the then Defence Secretary, in relation to military action in Serbia. The main item also states he was "defence secretary", which I think perhaps should be given as 'Defence Secretary'.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:33 pm

Johnny39 wrote: j.c.d. wrote: On my visits to Leeds going to buy a morning paper I see the Y.E.P. on the stands at 10am. Many years ago this paper had the 3. 30. horse racing result in the stock press. and if I bought the later edition it had the 4.30. result in. plus it contained news from that day unlike this present day rag. Is that the same fat greedy "Oliver" still going around guzzling Freebie meals ? In days long gone the two papers produced in Leeds at that time had "stop-press vans" which used to attend sporting events at Headingley cricket/rugby ground, Elland Road and any big events happening around the city, Roundhay Park etc. The paper sellers would take their unsold copies to the vans where they would have the racing results, latest cricket scores/football scores and stock-market prices inserted in the stop-press column, plus any other news deemed important enough to be inserted. This was done by running the unsold copies through a small printing press in the van. I have seen men buy a newspaper just to look at the stop-press scores and then immediately screw it up and throw it away. In those days the last edition sold by the vendors on the streets was about 6.30. p.m. We used to put our first edition on the streets by about 11.30. a.m. back then in the 50's/60's. That's Answered the question my wife asked meat the weekend.I knew about but not how the stop press happened.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:54 pm

dogduke wrote: Johnny39 wrote: j.c.d. wrote: On my visits to Leeds going to buy a morning paper I see the Y.E.P. on the stands at 10am. Many years ago this paper had the 3. 30. horse racing result in the stock press. and if I bought the later edition it had the 4.30. result in. plus it contained news from that day unlike this present day rag. Is that the same fat greedy "Oliver" still going around guzzling Freebie meals ? In days long gone the two papers produced in Leeds at that time had "stop-press vans" which used to attend sporting events at Headingley cricket/rugby ground, Elland Road and any big events happening around the city, Roundhay Park etc. The paper sellers would take their unsold copies to the vans where they would have the racing results, latest cricket scores/football scores and stock-market prices inserted in the stop-press column, plus any other news deemed important enough to be inserted. This was done by running the unsold copies through a small printing press in the van. I have seen men buy a newspaper just to look at the stop-press scores and then immediately screw it up and throw it away. In those days the last edition sold by the vendors on the streets was about 6.30. p.m. We used to put our first edition on the streets by about 11.30. a.m. back then in the 50's/60's. That's Answered the question my wife asked meat the weekend.I knew about but not how the stop press happened. In the newspaper print room the stop-press type was set separately and fitted on the press while it was still running. This meant initially there was nothing in the stop-press column till the new box started printing, these copies were classed as spoils and binned. I hope this makes sense.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 15 Sep, 2014 7:18 pm

Lazy journalism is evident in the 'Leeds Retro' section on pages 16 and 17 of the YEP today (September 15 2014). The section covers September 1984 and on page 17 in 'The Headlines' there is a report about the Leeds International Piano Competition in which it states "informally known as The Leeds and formerly the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition,[1] takes place every three years in Leeds" (I have only quoted part of the report). The [1] stood out like a sore thumb and on guessing correctly I found the report had been copied and pasted from an entry in Wikipedia dated August 14 2014 (the YEP had a slight change of some of the order of the Wikipedia report). Tut tut that the YEP could not be bothered to do their own version. Caught out by not removing the [1]. Elementary error!

sparky415 · Post by **sparky415** » Mon 15 Sep, 2014 8:59 pm

it gets even worse when they just copy and paste! Kinda defeats the object of buying a paper!!

kango · Post by **kango** » Tue 07 Oct, 2014 12:52 pm

Page ten of todays YEP has the two photos that appear in the "Leeds streets in the Daily Mail website" thread. The article says the location is unknown.Obviously not Secret Leeds members then, perhaps we should let them know!