It might have been classically smart but, as newsagents quickly told us, readers didn’t immediately recognise the new-look paper as their D&S. I’ll admit now that editing a venerable weekly newspaper institution that was the Darlington & Stockton Times had not been part of my career plan. The Market Town Revival campaign won the D&S the title of UK Campaigning Weekly Newspaper of the Year in the Newspaper Society awards in the year 2000. In this period the D&S was also voted the North-East Weekly Newspaper of the Year on multiple occasions. What that meant – just 30 years ago – was that if you wanted to know what was going on in your community you had to buy a local newspaper.

Source: The Times October 01, 2022 04:12 UTC