How the Yorkshire Evening Post has been part of great grandma's life since childhood

Many readers who grew up in Leeds will remember going to the local shop before tea as children to collect that day's Yorkshire Evening Post for their parents.
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Among them is 84-year-old Pamela Jeffrey, who remains a loyal reader of the paper to this day and now has the paper delivered to her daily through our subscription service.

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Born in Hyde Park and later living in Horsforth, her first memories of the YEP go back to childhood days when she would read the cartoons.

Papers rolling off the press at Dinnington in South Yorkshire, where the Yorkshire Evening Post is printed today. Picture: Bruce RollinsonPapers rolling off the press at Dinnington in South Yorkshire, where the Yorkshire Evening Post is printed today. Picture: Bruce Rollinson
Papers rolling off the press at Dinnington in South Yorkshire, where the Yorkshire Evening Post is printed today. Picture: Bruce Rollinson
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"I remember Bertie Banana and Alfie Apple," she said. "I think there was Mrs Gamp, she had an umbrella.

"It was an evening paper then, I used to go up to the shop for it. If I was a bit late and I went after tea, they were all gone."

These days the paper drops through her letterbox six mornings a week but it is still an important part of her daily routine.

Mrs Jeffrey, who is now a great grandmother, said: "At the beginning one of my daughters said, 'Don't have it delivered, it'll make you go out for a walk every day'. In normal times, I'm out quite a bit with different meetings and friends and things. But when it came to the bad weather, I said I might as well have it delivered.

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"You can keep up with things and it's interesting. If I don't get time to read it because I'm doing something else, when I should be getting to bed I'm reading the paper and doing the puzzles!"

A former clerk at an engineering company, Mrs Jeffrey values being able to keep up to date with whatever is going on in the city and often finds herself sharing items of news with friends who do not regularly read the paper.

Asked whether she would recommend a subscription, she said: "I would say get it every day. There's always something interesting. There are different articles and comments from other people. I don't write in but I find it interesting reading other people's opinions. It's informative."

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