The Lincolnshire Echo is hailing the latest success in its campaign to secure a new museum for Lincoln and Lincolnshire. A total of around £5m is set to be released by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, which means the £11m
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Campaign to keep city's heritage
The Lincolnshire Echo has launched a campaign to ask the public what should be done with the city’s historic King Richard II sword. They were faced with the choice of keeping the city’s historic treaure – or selling it off
Life-saver courses to be run by the Echo
Readers are being asked to step forward to learn how to save a life. The Lincolnshire Echo is to give everyone in the county the chance to learn first aid skills – if they are willing to spend two hours
Dramatic start to Echo campaign
A chilling display by firefighters gave the Lincolnshire Echo’s new road safety campaign a dramatic launch. Members of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue gave onlookers a glimpse of the equipment and procedures used to rescue victims of horrific road crashes. The
Career that developed for 45 years
Page 1 of 2 Photographer Peter Washbourne is celebrating 45 years in journalism, and remembered them for his weekly column in the Lincolnshire Echo. This week I am celebrating something of a milestone in my life. When I “retired” in
A bit of luck on a Royal visit
The third anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, prompted this memory from former Lincolnshire Echo photographer Peter Washbourn. It first appeared in the Echo, for which he still writes two weekly columns. It is three years since
Echo Gossiper Peter pens last column after 44 years in newspapers
Writer known for ‘clowning around’ worked under 11 different editors
How the Echo helped solve a crime
The Lincolnshire Echo has re-lived the tale of how a copy of the newspaper helped two police forces capture a woman and solve a crime Eighty years ago the Echo carried a story about the astuteness of two Lincoln police
How it all began…
On Friday, the Lincolnshire Echo chalks up another landmark when it celebrates its 110th birthday. Peter Brown looks back at how it all started, some of its earliest stories and campaigns, its first picture and at some of the highlights
Only a bomb could stop the Echo…
One hundred and ten years ago this week the first edition of the Lincolnshire Echo was published. It looked completely different to today’s Echo. It was a large broadsheet format, with just four pages – and the front page consisted
"Organist Attempts Wife Murder and Blows Out His Own Brains"
The Lincolnshire Echo is 110 years old and long-serving journalist Peter Reynolds took a look at what’s been making the news – and why. According to our personnel department records, I’ve been with the paper for 30 of those 110
Headline fun at election time
Back in the autumn of 1931, Britain was in the grip of election fever. The country was in crisis following the collapse of the world economy. On August 24, the Labour Government resigned and a new all-party National Government was
'800 not out!'Echo celebrates
Eight hundred pages of pure nostalgia – that’s the running total for the Lincolnshire Echo’s The Way We Were, this week celebrating its 100th issue. It has appeared almost every week since September 1999 featuring items from the Echo’s own
Parental fears could halt festive pictures
Worries over identifying children at school in press photos could lead to some festive news being left off the pages of local newspapers. Some regional papers are asking mums, dads and guardians whether their Christmas plays and other events can
Summer circulation dip to be bolstered by archive reprints
The Grimsby Evening Telegraph has launched a six-part weekly series of archive newspaper reprints from the 1940s and 1960s. The idea is to resist the annual drop in newspaper sales during the summer months and also provide a learning resource
Regional press embraces Newspaper Week
Regional newspapers all over the country removed some of the mystery surrounding the industry as they reached out to their readers for Local Newspaper Week. The event, run by the Newspaper Society, celebrates the work carried out by the industry