As a survival measure, the city's Express and Echo went weekly in September, following its sister paper in Torbay, after circulation dipped to 16.586.

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He then worked for the Wolverhampton Express and Star before joining the Daily Telegraph where he became the paper's European correspondent, working in Brussels.

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The announcement comes less than three weeks after the paper's sister title, Torbay and south Devon's Herald Express, moved from a daily to a weekly title.

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