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Regional daily to run four years of WW1 coverage

A regional daily has launched a new daily feature republishing First World War stories from the paper which will run until November 2018.

The South Wales Argus will run a story each day showing how it covered the conflict and has committed itself to keeping it going for the next four years.

The series launched last week with its report on the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the event that originally triggered the war.

Although the assassination took place on 28 June, it was not covered in British newspapers until the following week as the news took days to reach the UK.

The paper has created a First World War section on its website for the archived war stories and is also tweeting them via its @argusarchive Twitter feed.

Editor Kevin Ward said:  “I’ve made a commitment that this daily feature will continue until November 2018, the centenary of the end of the war. The feedback from readers so far has been very positive.”

In additon the Argus will be publishing a 48-page centenary special supplement on 4 August – 100 years to the day of Britain’s declaration of war on Germany,

The supplement, entitled Gwent’s Great War, mixes the paper’s own archive coverage of the start of the war with readers’ wartime stories passed down the generations.

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  • July 8, 2014 at 10:03 am
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    Fabulous service, which is what local newspapers should be about … well done Kevin.

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  • July 9, 2014 at 8:39 am
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    At last someone is marking the war in real time rather than the explosion (probably not the right term) of Great War content which, while laudable, kicked off in January and has probably already generated ‘war weariness’ among viewers and readers long before the centenary in August.

    If the Argus had the space, publishing the casualty lists as they appeared then would also have a real impact.

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