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The Swindon Advertiser is a daily tabloid newspaper, published in Swindon. The newspaper was founded in 1854, and had an audited average daily circulation at the end of 2017 of 8,828. [2] It claims to have been the UK's first provincial 'penny-paper'. [3] It is owned by Newsquest, the UK subsidiary of U.S.-based Gannett Company.
In 1921, the newspaper was renamed The Worcester Evening News and continued to be published daily. Throughout its history, The Shuttle was known for its coverage of local news and events in Worcester and the surrounding areas. It also covered national and international news, as well as sports, entertainment, and other topics.
The paper dates back to the first issue of the Kilburn Times on 14 March 1868. It was founded by Rowland George Bassett (c. 1842-1906) and was based in Kilburn.Another paper, the Willesden Chronicle and Herald, was launched in 1877; a year later the two papers merged and the new office and printing works was based on High Road, Willesden.
The contents of the "Wee Express", as it is known locally (to distinguish it from the "Big Express" i.e. the Scottish Daily Express) are typical of a local newspaper: local news, human interest stories, classified advertisements, intimations, church news, crosswords, wedding photographs, school photographs, local sports (mainly about the town's ...
The two parishes were united in 1981 [20] and following the 1989 building of a church in the Swindon suburb of Shaw, the parish was renamed West Swindon and the Lydiards in 1996. [21] A reorganisation effective in 2018 [ 22 ] saw the separation of Lydiard Millicent parish, and today the church is part of the West Swindon and Lydiard Tregoze ...
In 2012: Local World acquired the Sentinel, along with other newspapers owned by Northcliffe Media, from the Daily Mail and General Trust. [9] In 2015, the Sentinel's parent company, Local World, was acquired by the Trinity Mirror Group. [citation needed] The newspaper was based at Sentinel House on Bethesda Street, Hanley.
The Echo is currently the only paid-for local newspaper covering the city of Southampton. On Saturdays, the Daily Echo produced the Sports Pink until 2017. [5] This was used for the reporting of sport stories regularly involving local sports team Southampton Football Club. This was one of only two surviving 'local football papers' which used to ...
The Express & Echo was established in 1904 as the result of a merger between the Western Echo and the Devon Evening Express, which was founded in 1864. [3]In 1909 it contained a column titled "Womanland" which dealt with various topics including suffrage protests.