Yorkshire Evening Post

[rikj]

New heights reached (or depths plumbed) on 22nd September in the Tuesday Retro section. The headline for Neil Hudson's "Object of the Week" reads:

"Restored cock from 1765 strikes new note."

Looks better in print, especially as it is next to Neil's smiling face. I will try and scan it. Off to Private Eye with that one.

[Leodian]

New heights reached (or depths plumbed) on 22nd September in the Tuesday Retro section. The headline for Neil Hudson's "Object of the Week" reads:

"Restored cock from 1765 strikes new note."

Looks better in print, especially as it is next to Neil's smiling face. I will try and scan it. Off to Private Eye with that one.

Oops .

Would that be a cock-a-doodle-doo dawn strike .

[sparky415]

I wonder if 2016 will see the passing of the YEP....or I wonder will they combine both papers and have a mid-day 'cover-all' paper?

[jim]

There's a thought - a "mid-day cover all the day before yesterday" paper.

[tyke bhoy]

There's a thought - a "mid-day cover all the day before yesterday" paper.

To be fair I think the YP is slightly more current than the YEP. I think Sparky's comment would be on the premise that the YEP is truly an evening paper. I would suggest the YP is more current because the same day's YEP is "put to bed" earlier than the YP maybe the evening before which would make the evening bit still correct just the wrong evening

[jim]

Whoever said they were entitled to "fair"? The YEP isn't even a "fairly" good paper any more!

[sparky415]

I honestly do not know anyone who buys it. It's a hollow shell of badly written cack.

[sparky415]

Another thing, at what stage does the circulation drop so low that advertisers have had enough? I should imagine that it is the advertisers that are keeping the paper afloat. Years ago I used to print a magazine called The Leeds Guide. I printed the first ever issue and i printed the last ever issue when they went belly up. That magazine told all their advertisers that they had a circulation of 10,000 magazines a month, when , in reality the print run was around 1000 and there subscriptions were much, much lower than this. It was a advertising vehicle. Nothing more, nothing less. And as happens, when the first wiff of a recession came about they collapsed. Funny old world this printed media ain't it.....

[Leodian]

I get the YEP each day and despite its errors I do find it to be interesting.

I suspect that one problem is that any proof reading is no more than a cursory glance (if that) when an article is 'typed' into the system. I don't deliberately look for errors but they do sometimes stand out (I missed the amusing clock/cock error). In today's YEP (Oct 7 2015) there is a report on page 12 about the North Yorkshire Moors Railway cutting its prices for journeys this autumn and that, according to the YEP, from October afternoons "child tickets will be £13 instead of £10".

The YEP often has snippets of historical information and on page 9 today it reports "One of the strangest discoveries in Leeds was the bones of a hippo, believed to be around 130,000 years old, at Armley Gyratory". I never knew that Armley Gyratory is so old, as the bones were discovered in 1851.

[Leodian]

A feature titled 'Changing face of Boar Lane' is a subject on the 'Monday Retro' on page 18 of the YEP today (Nov 30 2015). The feature has an image stated to show "old shops on Albion Street around the turn of the 20th Century". The image however shows part of New Market Street, which, as far as I'm aware, has never been called Albion Street. The YEP even uses part of a modern view merged with the old image but the modern view is not up to date as for one thing it shows a branch of William Hills that is no longer there! The accompanying report about the changes to Boar Lane is very interesting so it's a shame that the YEP has spoilt it by calling Albion Street wrong. Why do the YEP seemingly not check things!

This is a link to the online version:- http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... -1-7590782. I notice that somebody has already commented about the wrong name.

Edit added shortly. As pointed out by buffaloskinner I wrongly state that it is New Market Street as it should be New Station Street. .