YOUR favourite daily newspaper switches to a morning format today - and also adopts a new name: The Press.

So what better time to look back at this newspaper's long history?

The Evening Press was first published as a "Daily Newspaper For Yorkshire, Durham and the Adjoining counties" on Monday, October 2, 1882. There was no rush to get hard news on the front page, although the newspaper did advertise "steam ploughing tackle, in excellent condition".

A hundred years later, the newspaper was well established as The Yorkshire Evening Press, and published a centenary souvenir supplement, containing with Royal messages of congratulation.

In those days, we were based in Coney Street, whereas nowadays The Press rolls out of Walmgate.