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and they also publish various award winning magazines including Your Wedding, InsideOut, Flavour and Exclusive Homes. He also released a pair of popular broadsheet Gazettes. In 2010 Bullivant launched a part paid-for weekly newspaper in Birmingham. Called the ''Birmingham Press'', and accompanied by a free edition, ''The Birmingham Free Press'', it was intended to rival Trinity Mirror's ''Birmingham Post'', but after only a few months the paper went into liquidation with total debts of £347,796. Bullivant blamed the newspaper's collapse on a lack of support from estate agents advertising in the city. Bullivant Media Limited (Company number 06850612) was liquidated in September 2022 due to insolvency with creditor’s claims totalling just under 2 million pounds sterling.

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External links

Bullivant Media official site

History of British Newspapers
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