- Greenock Telegraph
Infobox Newspaper
name = Greenock Telegraph
type = Dailynewspaper
format =Tabloid
foundation = 1857
price = £0.35
owners = Clyde & Forth Press
headquarters = 2 Crawfurd Street,Greenock PA15 1LH
editor = Anne Caine
circulation = 17,958 (Jan-Jun 2007) [http://abcpdfcerts.abc.org.uk/pdf/certificates/14420735.pdf Greenock Telegraphs - All Editions (Mon-Sat) Standard Certificate of Circulation, 01-Jan-2007 to 01-Jul-2007] Audit Bureau of Circulations]
website = [http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/]The Greenock Telegraph is a local
daily newspaper servingInverclyde ,Scotland .Founded in 1857, it was the first
halfpenny daily newspaper in Britain. It was for a time Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette, owing to the massive amount of maritime traffic moving in and out ofGreenock 's harbours. This information is still published, but only as a column entry.Originally based in Charles Street, Greenock, the printing works were bombed during the
Greenock Blitz in May 1941. However the printers worked on to produce emergency editions, despite sustaining multiple cuts from the shattered glass lodged in the presses.It is known locally as The Tele (although this is pronounced "Tilly"). Several features such as "Viator" (
Latin for "traveller") have formed part of the "Telegraph" for decades. Although it concerns itself primarily with news from Inverclyde, WestRenfrewshire andNorth Ayrshire it occasionally runs national stories on its front and inner pages.The paper has been printed at its current location in Crawfurd Street in Greenock since the 1960s. Long published by Orr, Pollock & Co., it is now published by
Clyde & Forth Press , who own a range of local titles in Central Scotland and a few titles in the south ofEngland .References
External links
* [http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk Newspaper website]
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