Sunderland and East Durham’s newspaper deliverers get a round of applause from us today after the job and its benefits returned to the headlines.
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said the loss of traditional Saturday and delivery jobs is contributing to the youth unemployment crisis by stripping teens of early work experience.
Today, we are looking at some of our area’s paper boys and girls of the past and the great work they did.
It includes a Penshaw teenager who helped a man with a broken hip, a newspaper boy who helped a passer-by who had fallen, and one deliverer who made friends with a jackdaw.
There’s the Seaham grandmother who was still doing her round when she was 81 and the Sunderland paper deliverers who were rewarded for their great work in 2003 with a trip to Flamingoland.
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9. In high demand in 1944
Echo newspaper delivers were besieged as they handed out copies on D-Day. | se