Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph

The Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, or Kettering ET as it is nicknamed, is the local newspaper for Kettering Northamptonshire. It is based at Newspaper House in Rothwell Road, Kettering, and has since 1996 been part of the Johnston Press newspaper group. The paper also has district offices in Wellingborough, Rushden and Corby.

The Kettering Evening Telegraph is published in full colour overnight ^[2] from Monday to Saturday. There are two editions of the paper printed every day: one distributed in Corby and the other in Kettering, Wellingborough, Rushden and the surrounding areas. The Corby edition has its own front page, page three and page five, focusing on issues specific to the town. The main edition has a front page, page three and page five made up of stories from the rest of the paper's patch. All other pages are the same in both editions. The paper covers a wide range of sport but some emphasis is placed on football and in particular Kettering Town FC. The Kettering Evening Telegraph also sponsors the financially troubled Kettering Town FC much to the amusement of those suppliers and employees owed money by the club.

The paper has been published continuously since 4 October 1897. A sports edition, the Football Telegraph, was also published until 1914 and again from 1921 to 1939.^[3]

History and ownership

The East Midland Allied Press was formed in 1947 by merger of the Northamptonshire Printing and Publishing Co. with the Peterborough Advertiser Co., the West Norfolk and King's Lynn Newspaper Co. and commercial printing sections at Rushden, King's Lynn and Bury St. Edmunds. It was overseen by Pat Winfrey, the son of Sir Richard Winfrey, who had bought the Spalding Guardian in 1887. In 1996, Emap, as it had become known, divested 69 newspapers, including the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph.^[4]

The Evening Telegraph and its sister paper, the Northampton Chronicle & Echo, are now owned by Northamptonshire Newspapers Ltd., part of Johnston Press.^[5] The separate Peterborough Evening Telegraph, owned by another Johnston subsidiary, began as localised edition with four change pages in 1948. Between 1946 and 1976, four geographically distinct editions were published with up to three change pages. From 1988, Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough and East Northants. editions were recommenced with minor page changes.^[6]

Campaigns and major stories

• The Evening Telegraph's fundraising campaign for 2008 is to raise £20,000 for the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance.^[7]
• Schoolgirl singer Faryl Smith's career has been followed closely since she was seven years old. The ET even launched a campaign for Faryl to win Britain's Got Talent in May 2008.^[8]
• On November 18, 2008 the paper covered a story of more than 60 people from Eastern Europe who had been trafficked illegally into the country and had been rescued by Northamptonshire Police.^[9]
• First World War roll of honour - a list of all the people from the region who died during the Great War.^[10]
• Get Active campaign - a campaign to get 20,000 people in Northamptonshire exercising to win the region £1m for sporting facilities.^[11]
• Campaigns for Jenna Mae Tokens, 7, and Chelsea Knighton, 3, both battling childhood cancer.^[12][13]
• Have a Heart appeal - an appeal to raise £100,000 for a new Heart Unit at Kettering General Hospital.^[14]
• University Campaign to get a campus in the north of the county. This has not been supported in Corby as the article clearly indicates. The Corby residents wish to have their own bid considered.^[15]

References

External links

• Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
• Johnston Press