The main office of the Evening Star in Lower Brook Street, Ipswich.

The Evening Star is a daily evening local newspaper based in Ipswich.

The newspaper started publication on 17 February 1885 and was known as The Star of the East until 1893.

The newspaper has run a number of campaigns ranging from saving hospitals, to catching murderers. The newspaper has maintained such a campaign to catch the murderer of Ipswich woman Karen Hales since 1993. Sports coverage is dominated by Ipswich Town Football Club and the Ipswich Witches speedway team, which the newspaper sponsors.

The newspaper was the winner of the Press Gazette's UK Daily Newspaper of the Year in 2007 and 2008^[1]

The current editor is Nigel Pickover.

The paper is printed Monday to Saturday and its circulation area includes Ipswich and Felixstowe. Circulation is around 20,000^[2].

The newspaper had long been published by the same company as the East Anglian Daily Times and is now owned by Archant.

From 1923 until 2008 the Star had a Saturday football edition, originally called the Football Star and then the Green Un. The Green Un is no longer printed but exists as a website, focused on non-league football. ^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/contact-us/about-us/
2. ^ "Audit Bureau of Circulation". Audit Bureau of Circulation. http://www.abc.org.uk. Retrieved 2008-10-24. 
3. ^ "Green Un - About us". Green Un. http://www.greenun24.co.uk/content/greenun/default/about.aspx. Retrieved 2008-10-24. 

[edit] External links

Evening Star website Green Un website

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