A poll of readers has prompted a raft of changes to the Exeter Express and Echo, in a bid to make the paper easier to read, more useful and better value. Design and content issues were at the top of
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Echo offers reward over terrorism backlash attack
The Express & Echo has put up a £1,000 reward to help police find an arsonist who set light to an Exeter family’s home as they slept inside. The race hate crime is believed to have been prompted by the
Foot & mouth 'off the agenda' in election purdah
Page 1 of 2 The pre-election ban on Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food press conferences has come under fire from editors in the Westcountry, who claim the “purdah” could sweep foot and mouth under the carpet until voting is
Double scoop for Phoenix
The Express and Echo managed to scoop the nationals not once – but twice – with its now world-famous story of Phoenix the calf. Phoenix was found alive among cattle corpses on a farm in the Westcountry and the photo
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Senior reporter Exeter’s evening newspaper, the Express & Echo, has a vacancy for a senior reporter. We are enjoying circulation growth and have won a string of industry awards, based on an agenda driven by hard news and lively human
Prison visit refused
Prison authorities may have overstepped the mark by refusing to allow a journalist to speak to a convict on hunger strike. The Express and Echo in Exeter is demanding to know why their reporter was turned away – even though
Echo offers £1,000 reward
The victim, identified only as “Gilly” by the newspaper, is suffering from a fractured skull after she was battered five or six times around the head with an unknown weapon when she disturbed the raider in the kitchen of her
Express & Echo fights for crime victims
The Scottish Parliament is to review the amount of information given to victims of crime following a campaign 500 miles away – by the Exeter Express & Echo. It comes after the newspaper took up the plight of city pensioner
Exeter ecstatic aboutroad victory
Staff at the Express and Echo in Exeter are celebrating with their readers after a campaign to get a road resurfaced was vindicated. Firstly, Prime Minister Tony Blair last week told the paper that its campaign to resurface the A30
Express & Echo coughs up cash for debt-ridden club
The Exeter Express & Echo kick-started a campaign to bring the city’s debt-ridden football club from the brink of closure – by donating £1,000 to a new fund and encouraging other local businesses to follow suit. More than half the
Join the fight for league survival
Football fans are being asked to make the difference between survival and oblivion for the Grecians. The Exeter Express & Echo is campaigning for a huge turnout at Exeter City’s home game when they play Lincoln City on Tuesday, March
Echo "was key" to forming new laws
Home Office minister Hilary Benn has told readers of the Express & Echo in Exeter that it was their newspaper’s Kids at Risk campaign that helped influence proposals in the 34-page White Paper, Protecting the Public. The document, which was
Echo scuttles booze cruise loophole
The Exeter Express & Echo has won a five-year campaign to close a legal loophole which allows alcohol to be served to children on boat trips. The Government will force so-called booze cruise vessels to get drinks licences in the
Bid to solve illness riddle
An appeal to the Government to launch an inquiry into the possible effects of telephone mast emissions was launched with a five-page spread in the Express and Echo. The Exeter paper focused on the case of six-year-old Emma Cann, who
Earlier editions and local news the key to adding circulation
New sections, more pages and a better all-round product helped the Express & Echo boost its sales to top the table of fastest-growing paid-for evening regionals in the latest ABC figures. But a new edition structure may have been the
What makes a winner?
What turns a paper like the Exeter Express and Echo into a winner?With a circulation below 30,000 it has beaten the ‘big guns’ in its region to be named BT South West Daily Newspaper of the Year.We talk to editor