Green Post days recalled as we speak to Horsforth couple who have read YEP for decades

Mr Hepworth, 80, is a keen Leeds Rhinos fan and likes to keep up to date with team news, along with local news from across the city.

His wife Sheila, 77, has been a YEP reader for more than 50 years and also is keen on keeping up to speed with local news and views.

Mrs Hepworth is currently following the story about the Leeds Bradford Airport expansion plan.

The couple have been subscribing to the YEP for more than three years.

Each day this week the YEP speaking to some of its longest-serving subscribers to find out what it is that they love about the Yorkshire Evening Post

Mr Hepworth, who was born in Longwood Terrace, Hunslet, in February 1940, is a retired printer who started his apprenticeship aged 16 at Jenkinsons in Kirkstall.

He recalls the 1950s and 1960s when copies of the YEP Green Post - with all that day's football and rugby results - were sold on street corners across the city every Saturday night.

Grandfather of four Mr Hepworth used to buy his Green Post from a newspaper seller who stood outside Horsforth Picture House on New Road Side.

"These papers were out by 6.30pm, it was unbelievable," he said. "There always used to be a match report and when somebody scored they had their name in block capitals so it leapt out at you."

Mrs Hepworth, who is from Bardsey, worked as a shorthand typist and secretary at the former Leeds chartered accountants Alexander Sagar and Co on Clarendon Road.

She said: "I like information about what's happening in the city. I like reading about what people are doing to help other people.

"I'm interested in what's happening with the airport at the moment."

Mrs and Mrs Hepworth, who got married at Bardsey Church in 1965, have two children and four grandchildren.

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