The Northern Echo is a daily regional morning newspaper, serving the North East of England. The paper is based in Priestgate, Darlington, County Durham. Its covers national as well as regional news. It is one of the most famous provincial newspapers in the United Kingdom. Its first edition was published on 1 January 1870.
Its second editor was W. T. Stead, the early pioneer of British investigative journalism, who earned the paper accolades from the leading Liberals of the day, seeing it applauded as "the best paper in Europe." Harold Evans, one of the great campaigning journalists of all time, was editor of The Northern Echo in the 1960s and argued the case for cervical smear tests for women. Evans agreed with Stead that reporting was "a very good way of attacking the devil".
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“‘What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I,
I, this incessant snow,
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