The Yorkshire Post was founded in 1754, as the Leedes Intelligencer, making it one of Britain's first daily newspapers. Like the Scotsman, it has the look and feel of a national broadsheet, rather than a local news carrier. Its focus on international and national news puts it in the same class as the Washington Post, which nobody would think of as the district's local newspaper. In fact, without "Yorkshire" in the title, the Post could easily be mistaken for another the Times or the Daily Telegraph, as was the case with the Manchester Guardian, a paper that eventually dropped the local indentifier from its masthead to become a fully-fledged member of the national press.
Hence, I maintain, that the evidence produced by Sir A Conan Doyle, and his collaborator is insufficient to warrant them in asking the shrewd Yorkshire Tyke, at any rate, to believe in the existence of fairies in his county of broad acres, or anywhere else, for that matter.
A YORKSHIRE fairytale, which for more than 60 years has set a flutter he hearts of those who believe in he little people - the tale even tricked Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other notables of his day - was finally discredited yesterday.
When Mrs Hill was asked in 1977 about what the enhancer had found, she told the YorkshirePost: That's the craziest idea.
Feeds |
Contact