The Herald Express is a local newspaper covering the Torbay area of the United Kingdom

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. It is published by Northcliffe Media

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 whose ultimate parent is DMGT. It serves a wide surrounding area of coastal and inland communities in South Devon which attracts millions of tourists each year to swell its 100,000-plus resident population.
The Herald Express was born out of the rivalry between two evening papers, each of which produced local editions for Torbay

Torbay

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 - an area which includes Torquay, Paignton

Paignton

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 and Brixham

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 - and first appeared in its own right as a title on Monday, July 13, 1925, when the two sensibly decided to amalgamate.

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's premier publishing centres had always been at Plymouth

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 - where Sir Leicester Harmsworth, brother of newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe, controlled the city's Evening Herald

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 - and at Exeter

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 - where Sir James Owen

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 had the county's other evening title, the Express and Echo.

First into Torquay had been the Exeter-sponsored Torbay express and South Devon Echo in 1921, followed shortly afterwards by the Plymouth-controlled Torbay Herald.