Known locally as the Tele (usually pronounced Tully or Tilly), it is the sister paper of The Courier, also published by Dundee firm DC Thomson.

[3] Originally founded by John Leng in 1877 as "The Evening Telegraph", it became Dundee's flagship local newspaper.

Its first editor was William Fisher and originally was liberal and reformist in its editorial style.

By the 1950s, the Evening Telegraph became very popular with readers with seven editions of the newspaper being printed in a day.

The Evening Telegraph features news and stories from Dundee and the local area and also has focus on national and international issues.