A new-look Grimsby Telegraph has hit the streets of north Lincolnshire, with a new masthead, cleaner design and more colour.

The redesign is the biggest change since the paper was renamed from the Grimsby Evening Telegraph in 2000.

Key staff have been involved in design meetings, draft prints and consultations with readers and staff.

Assistant editor Michelle Hurst said: “Several groups of readers were brought in at the design stage to ensure we were doing it right – and the overwhelmingly positive comments proved that we were.

“We wanted to freshen up the style of the Telegraph, introducing more colour, brighter pictures and a cleaner design.

“There will be new features like the ever-popular Bygones and a Family Announcements section but, even so, we will continue to focus on the readers.

“I hope they will find the new look more friendly and welcoming as we continue our quest to champion the causes of all communities with new campaigns and more news.”

Recent major design changes include the landmark decision to go compact in 1990, when 93 years of the newspaper being broadsheet came to an end as part of Northcliffe’s move to starndardise the size of all its regional and national publications.

A new printing press allowed full colour for the first time in 1995.

Prior to that the biggest change was the inclusion of news on the front page of the then Grimsby Daily Telegraph instead of adverts in 1931, and the renaming of the paper to become the Grimsby Evening Telegraph in 1932.

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