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5 unusual facts about Yorkshire Evening Post


Bruntcliffe School

The Yorkshire Evening Post report explained that its lack of achievement meant that it was one of over 600 schools that could potentially face closure or radical change and action, in a new scheme launched by the Schools Minister Ed Balls.

C. G. Grey

After leaving The Aeroplane, Grey served from 1939 as air correspondent of The Yorkshire Evening Post and the Edinburgh Evening News as well as various overseas journals.

Kilburn White Horse

A tablet erected at the car park below it reads, "The Kilburn 'White Horse' -- This figure was cut in 1857 on the initiative of Thomas Taylor, a native of Kilburn. In 1925 a restoration fund was subscribed by the readers of the Yorkshire Evening Post and the residue of £100 was invested to provide for the triennial grooming of the figure."

Lynne Bateson

Bateson has contributed to seven British national newspapers: Daily and Sunday Express, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, The Times and Sunday Times, as well among other publications, the London Evening Standard, the Yorkshire Evening Post, the Pudsey News and Money, Real and Your Life magazines.

Yorkshire Evening Post

Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield as well.


Tom Holley

After retiring from playing, he found himself a career in journalism as a football writer for the Yorkshire Evening Post and then The Sunday People, before retiring and moving to Majorca.


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Shakinouts

Due to their great success in Leeds, the Yorkshire Evening post coupled with Radio Aire invited them to share the bill at Party in the Park at Temple Newsam with artists such as Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris, N-Dubz and the Noisettes.