[2] At the age of 18 Hacket was working as an apprentice to a printer in Queen Street, Market Rasen.

Whittingham edited the paper and installed new printing equipment in his premises on Queen Street.

[6] In 1947 the Mail was bought by the editor Charles Edward "Teddy" Sharpe, who remained associated with the title until he died in 1983.

[7] One of the biggest stories reported by the paper was the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake, measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale, when Market Rasen was at the epicentre.

Reporters responded with a multi-media package of articles, videos, eye-witness accounts and reader submissions.