One of only a small handful of regional publishers still able to print on site as news happens, the special late edition of Monday's News & Star involved the news team in a speedy operation to pull together pages of local connections, visits, tributes, comment and reaction with archive pictures.
The breaking news also ran on the N&S website, inviting further reaction and comment onto its message forums.
Associate editor Anne Pickles said: "Delightfully old fashioned these days, I know. But publishing on site, on the day, as news breaks, is what good editorial practice was always meant to be.
"We're in a tiny minority. Very few newspaper groups have the ability to react immediately now... progress has dictated off-site overnight printing for so many regionals.
"It's a progress that strikes the 'news' from newspaper."
