Yorkshire Post leaving Wellington Street headquarters

Staff will start moving from the building in October

The owner of the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post is selling the offices that have been their home for the past 42 years.

Johnston Press said the landmark Wellington Street building, and the Wakefield Express office in Southgate, would be put on the market.

"Key editorial staff" in Wakefield will move to a central office in the town.

All other staff will move to new offices at the Number 1 Leeds development on Whitehall Road in Leeds.

The move is expected to take place from early October, the company said.

The Wellington Street building, which was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1970, once housed more than 1,300 staff. There are now less than 400 there.

The printing presses there closed in March when work was transferred to Dinnington, near Sheffield, and Sunderland.

Helen Oldham, managing director of Yorkshire Post Newspapers, said she was "delighted" to secure the new offices.