Chris Lloyd looks at how the D&S Times came in to being on October 2, 1847, and how it has kept going over the last 175 years. IN THE early hours of Saturday, October 2, 1847, on a hand-turned printing press in a cramped outbuilding behind Costa Coffee in Barnard Castle, the Darlington & Stockton Times was born. For as well as it being the Darlington & Stockton Times, they called it the Barnard-Castle, Richmond, Auckland, Middlesborough, Hartlepool, Teesdale and Swaledale Journal. But the D&S Times was far more than just an advertising sheet. This political change broadened the D&S Times' appeal among more conservative-minded rural communities, which is where its core audience remains today.

Source: The Times September 30, 2022 15:52 UTC