Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Trinity Mirror |
Editor | Michelle Lalor |
Sports editor | Trevor Green / Matt Dannatt |
Founded | 1897 |
Political alignment | Neutral, Populist |
Headquarters | Heritage House, Grimsby, England |
Circulation | 19,824 |
Website | www |
The Grimsby Telegraph is a daily British regional newspaper for the town of Grimsby and the surrounding area that makes up North East Lincolnshire including the rural towns of Market Rasen and Louth. The main area for the paper's distribution is in or around Grimsby and Cleethorpes. It is published six days a week (daily except Sundays) with a free sister paper (Grimsby Target) being published once per week.
The paper was founded in 1897 as the Eastern Daily Telegraph. In 1899, it was renamed the Grimsby Daily Telegraph, while in 1932 it became the Grimsby Evening Telegraph. In 2002, it adopted its present name.
Due to economic downturn, restructuring and cost-cutting measures were put into place by the end of 2008, Daily Mail and General Trust closed their regional printing arm – Harmsworth printing plant, several Northcliffe newspapers were printed at the Cleethorpes Road site in Grimsby including the Hull Daily Mail.
In 2012, Local World acquired owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust. In September 2015, Daily Mail and General Trust confirmed it had entered into talks to sell Local World to Trinity Mirror; the following month they reached an agreement with Local World's other shareholders to buy the company.
After spending 118 years at offices located in Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, Grimsby Telegraph moved to new offices in October 2015, on the first floor of Heritage House on Fisherman's Wharf – next to Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre.
The weekly sister paper that is free, circulates under the name of Grimsby Post and Cleethorpes Post respectively.
Due to public demand, the Grimsby Target was relaunched in September 2015, it had originally closed back in March 2007.
In 2001, Grimsby Telegraph won the pan-European award for customer care and service.