Yorkshire Post

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Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Yorkshire Post Newspapers
Editor	Peter Charlton
Founded	1754
Political allegiance	Centre-right
Price	£0.42
Headquarters	Leeds, England
Circulation	53,881 (Jan-Jun 2006)^[1]

Website: http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/

The Yorkshire Post is a daily broadsheet newspaper, published in Leeds, England by Yorkshire Post Newspapers, a company owned by Johnston Press. The paper was founded in 1754, as the Leedes Intelligencer, making it one of Britain's first daily newspapers.

The Yorkshire Post currently employs over 1000 people; over the last few years many people have been made redundant due to the new structure of the company.^{[citation needed]} Over 20 papers are issued from the Leeds site; these titles include the Metro, Pudsey Times, Yorkshire Evening Post.^{[citation needed]}

It regards itself as a national broadsheet, rather than a local news carrier, and its masthead carries the slogan "Yorkshire's National Newspaper". Its focus on international and national news gives it a wider focus than that usually associated with a provincial newspaper; editions are available throughout the United Kingdom. It is generally considered to be on the right of the political spectrum, supporting the Conservative Party (indeed its owners used to be known as Yorkshire Conservative Newspapers Limited until the 1960s) and bitterly opposing the ban on hunting.^{[citation needed]}