The Sentinel (Britain)

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The Sentinel is a local newspaper published in Stoke-on-Trent, England.

It is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and based in Sentinel House, Etruria. The paper is printed from Monday to Saturday as a tabloid but the Sunday edition is printed as a broadsheet and called Sentinel Sunday. From August 6th 2006, however, Sentinel Sunday has become available in a more compact version.

[edit] May Un Mar Lady

May un Mar lady is a comic strip written in Potteries dialect that first appeared on July 8, 1986 in the North Staffordshire Evening Sentinel and has been a local institution for over 20 years. The full twenty-year run (7,000 strips) of cartoonist Dave Follows' daily cartoon strip daily cartoons is being republished in the Evening Sentinel, as May un Mar Lady Revisited. Follows lived in Staffordshire all his life. He had a special soft spot for the Potteries and its people. The Sentinel's editor Sean Dooley said:

“I’m sure Dave’s humour will be as sharp and as relevant the second time round – it is rooted in the marvellous observations of human relationships – a timeless humour that will stand as a tribute to his talent for years to come”

And Alan Cookman of the Sentinel described the comeback as:

“The most exciting homecoming since Stanley Matthews returned to Stoke from his footballing adventure with Blackpool.”