Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group
Newspaper Sales / Promotions-Manager -Dena Forbes		Editor - Mark Bradley

BY the dim glow of gas light in March 1852 printer John Robinson produced the first Wakefield Express newspaper on a press powered by steam. The price was four-and-a-half old pence and the broadsheet editions were created at Southgate, from where the company is still based.

Despite the changes in mass communication and lifestyles, today’s Wakefield Express still aims to provide a comprehensive information and commercial vehicle that serves the local community. The five-edition Wakefield Express with its three sections of sport and leisure, motoring and property, is the flagship newspaper of the Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group. We are the main provider of news and advertising for the Wakefield area. Also produced at Wakefield is the Extra Series, the Ossett Observer, the Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express and Lifestyle magazine.Our sister titles based in their own offices are the Pontefract and Castleford Express, the Morley Advertiser, the Selby Times and the Selby Chronicle.

The group is part of Johnston Press, one of the biggest publishers of regional titles in the UK. All YWNG’s titles are produced, printed and despatched from our headquarters at Express House in Southgate, Wakefield. Satisfying the needs of nearly 700,000 readers involves every week 45 tonnes of newsprint and a tonne of ink – all of which goes to produce around 350,000 separate copies of our ten weekly titles – that’s about 12.5million pages.YWNG are also contract printers for other Johnston Press titles, as well as printing a series of publications for other companies on our 19-unit Goss Community colour press.