North-West Evening Mail

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The North-West Evening Mail is a daily, local newspaper in the United Kingdom, printed every evening. It is based in Barrow-in-Furness.

Although its title suggests a larger area, it in fact only covers news in South Cumbria. Typically, this is Furness, Ulverston, Windermere, Millom, and some of the more notable stories from Kendal and Copeland.

It is in a tabloid style, and has four separate editions, Barrow Early, Barrow Late Final, Ulverston and South Lakes, and Millom: although the only difference is on the front page and page six; the remainder of the paper is the same throughout. The paper's critics claims that it has a preference for the scare-story over reporting the facts, and many local people take its headlines with a pinch of salt. Its supporters note that it is a good local paper, providing coverage for some remote areas, and has done a very efficient job exposing Local Authority incompetence over the recent Legionellosis outbreak.

The Evening Mail is printed and published by Furness Newspapers Ltd. a subsidiary of Carlisle-based media company CN Group Ltd.

The day before a Cafe Thorntons chocolate store opened in town, the window was broken^[1] by "yobs".^[2] As a response, the store manager posted on his MySpace account that "The first day I was there the little s**ts put my shop window through stealing over a grand’s worth of stock!!",^[3] describing the town as a "s**t-hole", "rough", and "boring". The Evening Mail published these comments published on its front page, leading the CEO of Thorntons to issue an official apology. The manager was sent back to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne branch where he had worked prior.^[2]