''Bedfordshire on Sunday'' (BoS) was a free local

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published in

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. It was distributed as two editions, one covering the

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, the other edition serves

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. The gross distribution was around 112,000.

Distribution

The newspaper was distributed using either through delivery through letterboxes on a Sunday morning, or more recently given out at local supermarkets, newsagents and other local points of interest. The paper was published by LSN Media Ltd which was previously owned by

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. Branston, who founded the newspaper in 1977, went on to become the first directly elected mayor of the borough of Bedford in 2002. Branston sold his share of LSN to

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in 2005. In 2012,

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acquired Iliffe News & Media from

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, and in turn this was acquired by Trinity Mirror. The newspaper's last edition was on 1 October 2017, (one of 40 local newspapers to close that year) and was replaced by a midweek newspaper with less emphasis on news and more on leisure activities called ''Bedfordshire Midweek'', however this was closed after eight months of publication.

Style

The style of journalism was generally more sensationalist than a typical local paper, and time and again its front page stories have been picked up by the national press over the years. Most notable was a story about dead bodies being stored in a chapel at

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rather than a morgue in 2001. A story about a teenager being banned for life from the

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after insulting

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received worldwide attention in 2010.

Online media

Bedfordshire on Sunday published most of its news online for free, however Trinity Mirror shut the sites down shortly after the closure of the print edition.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bedfordshire On Sunday Newspapers published in Bedfordshire Bedford Newspapers established in 1977 1977 establishments in England Defunct Sunday newspapers published in the United Kingdom Publications disestablished in 2017