The Post
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The Post was a national tabloid newspaper
in the United Kingdom
, owned by Eddy Shah
. It ran for only five weeks in November and December 1988. Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves
, then the hosts of an ITV
football series called Saint and Greavsie, had a column in the paper.
The Post was produced at Messenger Newspapers, Warrington, UK. Using Apple Macintosh computers and Quark Xpress software giving a "what you see is what you get" page design, it was, for its short life, using the most advanced production techniques. In addition to this, the pages were transmitted by phone line to the printshop, which gave extra lead time (no courier service).
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, owned by Eddy Shah
Eddy Shah
Selim Jehan Shah , commonly known as Eddy Shah or Eddie Shah, is a Manchester-based businessman, the founder of the then technologically-advanced UK newspaper Today in 1986, and of the extremely short-lived tabloid The Post, and current owner of the Messenger Group.Shah was born in Cambridge of an...
. It ran for only five weeks in November and December 1988. Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves
Jimmy Greaves
James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves is an English former football player, England's third highest international goalscorer, the highest goalscorer in the history of Tottenham Hotspur football club, the highest goalscorer in the history of English top flight football and more recently a television pundit -...
, then the hosts of an ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
football series called Saint and Greavsie, had a column in the paper.
The Post was produced at Messenger Newspapers, Warrington, UK. Using Apple Macintosh computers and Quark Xpress software giving a "what you see is what you get" page design, it was, for its short life, using the most advanced production techniques. In addition to this, the pages were transmitted by phone line to the printshop, which gave extra lead time (no courier service).