Lincolnshire Echo
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The Lincolnshire Echo is a daily (evening) British regional newspaper for Lincolnshire, founded in 1894. It is owned by Northcliffe Newspapers. The main area for the paper's distribution is in or around Lincoln. It is published six days a week (daily except Sundays).
Over recent years, a lot of the work previously done in Lincoln (including the printing) has been moved out of the county. As a result, although locally most people still regard it as an evening paper, because there is no longer a local production facility it can no longer publish 'same day' news. News stories now come from the previous few days.
The Lincolnshire Echo Group also produces a series of Target newspapers - free weekly newspapers containing articles from the previous week's Echo for specific areas, including Boston, Gainsborough, Grantham, Lincoln, Louth, Skegness. The Retford Times is a weekly paid-for newspaper for the town of Retford, also produced by the Echo group.
As of June 2006 paper has an average circulation of 24,560[1], though many of the free Target newspapers have higher circulation figures.
The paper was named "Regional Newspaper of the Year" by the Newspaper Society in April 2005[2]. The current editor is Jon Grubb.
During the period 2002-2005, the paper played a major role in exposing a local political scandal, when it challenged Jim Speechley, the then Conservative leader of Lincolnshire County Council, who was jailed for 18 months in 2004 for financial corruption. [3] [4][5][6][7] [8]
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