"MY esteemed friend and ex-colleague Ralph Slater has passed on in his 70s after collapsing in a railway station car park near his home in Sussex.

I first met him when I joined the Evening Echo at Hemel Hempstead in 1970. He was deputy news editor during an era when the Echo was winning design awards nearly every year.

The paper - part of the Thomson chain - pioneered computerised typesetting and web offset printing, and quickly established a reputation for editorial excellence."

John Marquis

https://www.johnmarquis.net/old-hacks-gazette

"The founding editor of a “trailblazing” evening newspaper has died just short of his 92nd birthday.

Ivor Lewis headed up the Evening Echo, based at Hemel Hempstead, which won more design and writing awards than any other paper in Britain during his nine-year tenure from 1967 to 1976."

https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2014/news/founding-editor-of-trailblazing-daily-dies-at-91/

Many notable journalists started (or finished) their career at the Post:

Peter Wright, Ivor Lewis (former Sunday Times), Richard Parrack (later executive with News International, Melanie Phillips (Daily Mail), Stephen Pile (Sunday Telegraph), David Francis (Mail on Sunday), Cliff Barr (The Sun, Daily Express), Lee Harrison and John Cathcart (National Enquirer), Anthony Holden (Sunday Times and The Observer), Maurice Chittenden (Sunday Times), Jean Ritchie (The Sun), Mark Milner (The Guardian),Michael Bilton ( Sunday Times ), David Felton (The Independent), and John Marquis.

The journalists and the paper won several awards. Was widely regarded as the future of newspapers for its use of off-set printing, imaginative use of pictures, and bold investigative and social reporting.

It ran from 1967 to 1983.

How do I access sports reports and images from back in the 1980?