Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in
Falkirk
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, Scotland, in 1767.
Its
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titles included UK-national newspaper the ''
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The Scotsman
''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its par ...
'', the ''
Yorkshire Post
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'', the ''
Falkirk Herald
''The Falkirk Herald'' is a weekly newspaper and daily news website published by National World. It provides reportage, opinion and analysis of news, current affairs and sport in the towns of Falkirk, Grangemouth, Larbert, Stenhousemuir and ...
'', and
Belfast
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's ''
The News Letter
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when it went into administration and was the purchased by
JPIMedia
National World is a British multimedia company. The company was founded as JPIMedia Publishing Ltd in November 2018 following the acquisition of Johnston Press assets by its creditors. JPIMedia was purchased by National World PLC for £10.2 mill ...
in 2018. The ''
Falkirk Herald
''The Falkirk Herald'' is a weekly newspaper and daily news website published by National World. It provides reportage, opinion and analysis of news, current affairs and sport in the towns of Falkirk, Grangemouth, Larbert, Stenhousemuir and ...
'' was the company's first acquisition in 1846. Johnston Press's assets were transferred to
JPIMedia
National World is a British multimedia company. The company was founded as JPIMedia Publishing Ltd in November 2018 following the acquisition of Johnston Press assets by its creditors. JPIMedia was purchased by National World PLC for £10.2 mill ...
in 2018, who continued to publish its titles.
Johnston Press announced it would place itself in administration on 16 November 2018 after it was unable to find a suitable buyer of the business to refinance £220m of debt. It was delisted from the
London Stock Exchange
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on 19 November 2018. Johnston Press and its assets were brought under the control of JPIMedia on 17 November 2018 after a pre-packaged deal was agreed with creditors.
History
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The Johnston family business was involved in printing from 1797, originally in Falkirk. It bought control of its first newspaper, the ''
Falkirk Herald
''The Falkirk Herald'' is a weekly newspaper and daily news website published by National World. It provides reportage, opinion and analysis of news, current affairs and sport in the towns of Falkirk, Grangemouth, Larbert, Stenhousemuir and ...
'', in 1846. The company would remain headquartered in Falkirk for the next 150 years. The family publishing company was renamed F Johnston & Co Ltd in 1882, a title it would retain until it was floated on the London Stock Exchange as Johnston Press () in 1988.
The company's first major acquisition came in 1970, when it took control of the Fife-based publishers Strachan & Livingston.
In 1978, it bought Wilfred Edmunds Ltd in
Chesterfield
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, publisher of the ''
Derbyshire Times
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'' and The Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group in
Wakefield
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.
The Company bought ''The West Sussex County Times'' in 1988, ''The Halifax Evening Courier'' in 1994 and the newspaper interests of
EMAP
Ascential plc, formerly EMAP, is a British business-to-business media business specialising in exhibitions & festivals and information services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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plc in 1996.
Further expansion followed with ''Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers'' in 1999 and ''Regional Independent Media Holdings'' in 2002.
The Company expanded into the Irish market in 2005 by purchasing
Local Press Ltd
Derry Journal Newspapers (formerly Local Press Ltd) is owned by JPIMedia. Derry Journal Newspapers owns 4 local newspapers in Northern Ireland. The 4 titles are the ''Derry Journal'', the '' Sunday Journal'', ''City News'' (free title) and ''Foy ...
, a company owned by
3i (£65 million), the newspaper assets of
Scottish Radio Holdings
Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) was a Scottish media company which owned 22 radio stations, and around 30 local newspapers in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
History
SRH had its origins in the 1970s when Glasgow was awarded the third licence for ...
, known as Score Press with forty-five titles in Scotland and Ireland (£155 million), and the Leinster Leader Group (€138.6 million).
Johnston Press acquired
The Scotsman Publications in 2006, taking ownership of two of Scotland's major national broadsheet titles, ''
The Scotsman
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'' and ''
Scotland on Sunday
''Scotland on Sunday'' is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published in Edinburgh by JPIMedia and consequently assuming the role of Sunday sister to its daily stablemate ''The Scotsman''. It was originally printed in broadsheet format but in 2013 ...
'', as well as two local papers, the ''
Edinburgh Evening News
The ''Edinburgh Evening News'' is a daily newspaper and website based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded by John Wilson (1844–1909) and first published in 1873. It is printed daily, except on Sundays. It is owned by JPIMedia, which also ...
'' and the ''
Edinburgh Herald & Post
The ''Edinburgh Herald & Post'' was a weekly Scottish freesheet that delivered to households in Edinburgh, Midlothian and Musselburgh. It consisted mainly of advertising and promotional pieces, with news items sourced from sister publication ' ...
''.
In 2014,
Iconic Newspapers
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acquired Johnston Press' titles in the
Republic of Ireland
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.
In March of that year, Johnston Press launched a digital advertising agency called 1XL, in partnership with a number of other media companies including ''
Local World
Local World Holdings Ltd. was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK that published around 100 print titles and more than 70 websites. It was formed in 2012 by David Montgomery, a former chief executive of Trinity Mirror, to buy the Dai ...
'' and ''
Newsquest
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''.
In February 2016, the company announced it was buying
''i'' newspaper for £24m. The deal to buy ''i'' was completed on 10 April 2016, giving Johnston Press a daily print circulation of over 600,000 newspapers and an audience
online
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and in print of almost 32 million people.
In July 2016 Johnston Press sold off its three titles on the
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— the ''
Isle of Man Examiner
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The paper is published every Tuesday, and is owned by Isle of Man Newspapers, which is now part of the Tindle Group.
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'', the ''
Isle of Man Courier
The Isle of Man Courier is a free weekly newspaper on the Isle of Man.
It is owned by Isle of Man Newspapers (now part of Tindle Newspapers) and its sister newspapers are the ''Isle of Man Examiner'' and the ''Manx Independent''.
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'' and the ''
Manx Independent
The ''Manx Independent'' is a tabloid weekly newspaper in the Isle of Man. It is published every Friday.
It is owned by Isle of Man Newspapers, which is now part of Tindle Newspapers.
Its sister weekly newspapers are the ''Isle of Man Courier ...
'' — to
Tindle Newspapers
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It publishes over 200 local newspapers in the UK, a number of which are over 100 years old.
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in a deal worth £4.25m. In January 2017 Johnston sold off a further 13 titles covering the
East Midlands
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and
East Anglia
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(including the ''
Stamford Mercury
The ''Stamford Mercury'' (also the ''Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury'', the ''Rutland and Stamford Mercury'', and the ''Rutland Mercury'') based in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, claims to be "Britain's oldest continuously published news ...
'') to
Iliffe Media
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for £17m. The same month, the company also won a contract from
Associated Newspapers
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(ANL) to print the Monday-to-Saturday issues of the ''
Daily Mail
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'' newspaper at Johnston's Portsmouth Web facility in Hampshire, following the closure of ANL's printing site at Didcot.
Administration
In October 2018, with debts of around £200m and a market capitalisation of £3m, the company announced that it had put itself up for sale. On 16 November 2018, the group announced it was filing for administration, intending to then sell the assets to its lenders. Johnson Press in a statement added there was no longer any value in its shares, in a major blow to
Christen Ager-Hanssen
Christen Eugen Ager-Hanssen (born July 29, 1962) is a Norwegian internet entrepreneur & venture capitalist. Since the late 1990s, he has been based in London and is a highly controversial private equity professional. , the chief executive of Custos Group, which was the largest shareholder at 25 percent. The company agreed a pre-packaged administration whereby Johnston Press's businesses and assets would be sold to a group of companies controlled by its creditors. Those included
GoldenTree Asset Management
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, the largest creditor with about £70m of bonds.
Takeover by creditors
On 17 November 2018, a spokesperson for Johnston Press announced that all its titles had been transferred to the control of JPIMedia, a
special purpose vehicle
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(SPV), owned by the creditors. Under the terms of the
pre-packaged deal, ownership passed to a consortium of four lenders, CarVal, Fidelity, Benefit Street Partners and Goldentree Asset Management – who reduced its debts to £85 million and injected £35 million investment.
This however was subject to criticism by Johnston Press's largest shareholder, described as a "blatant pre-planned corporate theft by bondholders", and was raised in Parliament.
Operations
Newspapers in Great Britain
The following is a partial list of British newspapers once owned by the company:
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Arbroath Herald
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Banbury Guardian
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Batley & Birstall News
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Bellshill Speaker
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Berwick Advertiser
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Biggleswade Chronicle
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Blackpool Gazette
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Bognor Regis Observer
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Bridlington Free Press
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Brighton & Hove Independent''
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Buckingham Advertiser''
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Bucks Herald
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Burnley Express
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Buxton Advertiser
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Carrick Gazette
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Chichester Observer
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Chorley Guardian
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Crawley Observer
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Cumbernauld News
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Daventry Express''
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Dewsbury Reporter
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Diss Express
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Dinnington Guardian Dinnington is an English place name. It may refer to the following places in England:
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Doncaster Free Press
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Edinburgh Evening News
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Edinburgh Herald and Post
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Eastbourne Herald
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East Grinstead Gazette
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Ellon Times
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Falkirk Herald
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Fife Free Press
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Filey Mercury
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Fleetwood Weekly News
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Galloway Gazette
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Gainsborough Standard
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Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra
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Green Un
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Halifax Courier
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Harborough Mail
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Hartlepool Mail
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Harrogate Advertiser
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Hemel Hempstead Gazette
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It was first published in 1858 as ''The Hemel ...
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Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express
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Horncastle News
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It was founded in 1885 by William Kirkham Morton, who already owned a printing and stationery business in the town.
In 1958, the ...
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Kilsyth Chronicle
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History
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Lanark Gazette
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Lancashire Evening Post
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Lancaster Guardian Lancaster may refer to:
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Leyland Guardian Leyland may refer to:
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* Leyland, Alberta, a community in Canada
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Leamington Courier
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Leighton Buzzard Observer
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Places
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Littlehampton Gazette
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Louth Leader Louth may refer to:
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Canada
* Louth, Ontario
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Luton News
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Lynn News
The ''Lynn News'' is published by Iliffe Media and appears each Tuesday and Friday in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England.
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Lytham St Annes Express
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Market Rasen Mail
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Malton & Pickering Mercury''
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Mansfield Chad
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...
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Mid Sussex Times
The ''Mid Sussex Times'' is a local weekly paper for the region of Mid Sussex in West Sussex, but also covering news from the localities of East Sussex. The two major towns served by the paper are Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath, including new ...
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Mirfield Reporter
The ''Mirfield Reporter'' is a local weekly publication, providing news for residents of Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England, and surrounding areas.
It is owned by Johnston Press Digital Publishing, and has sister newspapers '' Dewsbury Reporter' ...
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Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
Milngavie ( ; gd, Muileann-Ghaidh) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland and a suburb of Glasgow. It is on the Allander Water, at the northwestern edge of Greater Glasgow, and about from Glasgow city centre. It neighbours Bearsden. Milngav ...
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Milton Keynes Citizen
The Milton Keynes Citizen is the only freely distributed local newspaper in Milton Keynes. The newspaper is part of JPIMedia.
The ''MK Citizen'' was founded by Bill Alder and Jerry West on 1 October 1981 and they sold to EMAP in 1987 and the pu ...
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Montrose Review
The ''Montrose Review'' was established on 11 January 1811, with the full title of ''The Montrose, Arbroath and Brechin Review, and Forfar and Kincardine Shires Advertiser''. It was circulated widely throughout the counties of Angus and Kincardin ...
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Morecambe Visitor''
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Morpeth Herald
The ''Morpeth Herald'' is a weekly newspaper published in Morpeth, Northumberland, England. The newspaper serves Morpeth, Ponteland, Pegswood, Ellington, Lynemouth, Widdrington Station and the outlying districts.
History
A broadsheet, establ ...
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Motherwell Times
Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lanarks ...
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News Guardian
The ''News Guardian'' is a free weekly newspaper covering three main areas of North Tyneside, a metropolitan district in north east England. It serves Whitley Bay, North Shields and Wallsend with news, sport, entertainment as well as regular prope ...
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News Post Leader
The News Post Leader is a British paid-for weekly that covers the north-east county of Northumberland, including the towns of Cramlington, Ashington, Bedlington and Blyth.
History
The paper was formed from the amalgamation of several south-eas ...
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The News'' (Portsmouth)
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Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
The ''Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph'' is the local newspaper for north and east Northamptonshire and is the sister paper of Northampton's '' Chronicle & Echo''. It is based at Newspaper House in Rothwell Road, Kettering, and has since 1996 ...
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Northampton Chronicle & Echo
The ''Northampton Chronicle & Echo'' (known locally as ''"The Chron"'') is a local newspaper serving Northampton, England, and the surrounding towns and villages. It was published daily from Monday-Saturday until 26 May 2012 at a price of £0.4 ...
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Northumberland Gazette
The ''Northumberland Gazette'' is a weekly newspaper published in Alnwick, Northumberland, England. It serves Alnwick, Amble, Seahouses, Rothbury, Wooler and outlying districts.
The ''Gazette'' typically covers local news, sport, leisure and fa ...
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*''Paisley and Renfrewshire Extra'' (now defunct)
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Perth Herald & Post''
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Peterborough Evening Telegraph
The ''Peterborough Telegraph'', or ''PT'' as it is known locally (formerly the ''Peterborough Evening Telegraph'' or ''ET''), is the local newspaper for the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. It is based at New Priestga ...
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Pocklington Post
Pocklington is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish situated at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded its population as 8,337. It is ...
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Retford Guardian
Retford (), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfie ...
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Ripon Gazette
Ripon () is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city i ...
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Rugby Advertiser
Rugby is a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon. In the 2021 census its population was 78,125, making it the second-largest town in Warwickshire. It is the main settlement within the larger Borough of Rugby whi ...
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Scarborough News
''The Scarborough News'' is a weekly newspaper distributed in and around the Scarborough area in North Yorkshire, England. It was launched on 31 May 2012 as a relaunch of the former daily newspaper, the ''Scarborough Evening News'', and incorp ...
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Scotland on Sunday
''Scotland on Sunday'' is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published in Edinburgh by JPIMedia and consequently assuming the role of Sunday sister to its daily stablemate ''The Scotsman''. It was originally printed in broadsheet format but in 2013 ...
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The Scotsman
''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its par ...
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Selby Times
The ''Selby Times'' is a local weekly newspaper covering Selby and the surrounding district in North Yorkshire, England. It is a paid-for title published weekly on Thursdays, and is the sister paper to the Goole Times, with which it shares co ...
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Sheffield Star
''The Star'', often known as the ''Sheffield Star'', is a daily newspaper published in Sheffield, England, from Monday to Saturday each week. Originally a broadsheet, the newspaper became a tabloid in 1993. ''The Star'', the weekly ''Sheffield ...
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Sheffield Telegraph
The ''Sheffield Telegraph'' is a weekly newspaper published in Sheffield, England. Founded in 1855 as the ''Sheffield Daily Telegraph'', it became known as the ''Sheffield Telegraph'' in 1938.
History
The ''Sheffield Telegraph'' was founded i ...
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Shields Gazette
The ''Shields Gazette'', established in 1849, is a daily newspaper. It was known as the oldest provincial evening newspaper in the United Kingdom.
It was originally established as a weekly paper - the ''North and South Shields Gazette and Nort ...
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Shoreham Herald''
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Skegness Standard
Skegness ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey District of Lincolnshire, England. On the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, the town is east of Lincoln and north-east of Boston. With a population of 19,579 as of 2011, i ...
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Spilsby Standard
Spilsby is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The town is adjacent to the main A16, east of the county town of Lincoln, north-east of Boston and north-west of Skegness. It l ...
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Stornoway Gazette
The ''Stornoway Gazette'' is a local newspaper reporting on local issues in the Western Isles of Scotland, specifically Stornoway and the Outer Hebrides.
In 2004, nine months of head-to-head competition with a rival title ended with ''The Hebri ...
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Sunderland Echo
The ''Sunderland Echo'' is a daily newspaper serving the City of Sunderland, Sunderland, South Tyneside and Easington (district), East Durham areas of North East England. The newspaper was founded by Samuel Storey, Edward Backhouse, Edward Tem ...
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Sussex Express
National World is a British multimedia company. The company was founded as JPIMedia Publishing Ltd in November 2018 following the acquisition of Johnston Press assets by its creditors. JPIMedia was purchased by National World PLC for £10.2 mil ...
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Times & Citizen
The ''Times & Citizen'' is a free local newspaper published on Thursdays in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. The newspaper is distributed all over the Borough of Bedford and much of Mid Bedfordshire. Current circulation is around 31,000.
History
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Todmorden News
Todmorden ( ; ) is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Manchester, south-east of Burnley and west of Halifax. In 2011 it had a population of 15,481.
Todmo ...
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The Visitor'' (Morecambe, Lancs)
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Westend Extra'' (Glasgow)
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West Lothian Herald & Post''
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West Sussex County Times
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some R ...
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West Sussex Gazette
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...
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* West Sussex Citizen
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Wetherby News
The ''Wetherby News'' is a local weekly tabloid newspaper published on a Thursday and based in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England.
The newspaper was founded in 1859 with its offices on the High Street next to the Angel Inn.
The paper's news edi ...
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Whitby Gazette
The ''Whitby Gazette'' was an English provincial newspaper published in Whitby, North Yorkshire.
History
The ''Whitby Gazette'' was founded on 6 July 1854 by Ralph Horne, a local printer, bookseller, stationer, bookbinder, paperhanger and shi ...
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Wigan Post
The ''Wigan Post'' (formerly ''Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle'' and later just the ''Wigan Evening Post'') is a weekly (changed from daily in August 2021) tabloid British regional newspaper for Wigan in Greater Manchester (formerly in the tradi ...
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Worksop Guardian
Worksop ( ) is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from the no ...
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Worthing Herald
Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Hov ...
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Yorkshire Evening Post
The ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The paper provides a regional slant on the day's news, and traditio ...
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Yorkshire Post
''The Yorkshire Post'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper, published in Leeds in Yorkshire, England. It primarily covers stories from Yorkshire although its masthead carries the slogan "Yorkshire's National Newspaper". It was previously owned by ...
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Newspapers in Ireland
JPIMedia
National World is a British multimedia company. The company was founded as JPIMedia Publishing Ltd in November 2018 following the acquisition of Johnston Press assets by its creditors. JPIMedia was purchased by National World PLC for £10.2 mill ...
publishes a total of 22 titles in Northern Ireland through two
holding companies
A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own shares of other companies ...
,
JPIMedia NI and
Derry Journal Newspapers
Derry Journal Newspapers (formerly Local Press Ltd) is owned by JPIMedia. Derry Journal Newspapers owns 4 local newspapers in Northern Ireland. The 4 titles are the ''Derry Journal'', the '' Sunday Journal'', ''City News'' (free title) and ''Foy ...
. The geographic readership of some titles extends across the
Irish border
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
into the Republic of Ireland, such as the ''
Derry Journal
The ''Derry Journal'' is a newspaper based in Derry, Northern Ireland, serving Derry as well as County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. It is operated by a Johnston Press holding company entitled Derry Journal Newspapers. The paper is publ ...
'' which also covers
County Donegal
County Donegal ( ; ga, Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconne ...
. Former JPIMedia titles published in the Republic of Ireland now belong to
Iconic Newspapers
Iconic Newspapers is an Irish newspaper company that publishes over 20 regional newspapers. Iconic Newspapers are owned by Mediaforce who are majority owned by Malcolm Denmark. Iconic Newspapers hold their newspaper assets in a subsidiary called F ...
.
Johnston Publishing (NI)
=Daily
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* ''
The News Letter
The ''News Letter'' is one of Northern Ireland's main daily newspapers, published from Monday to Saturday. It is the world's oldest English-language general daily newspaper still in publication, having first been printed in 1737.
The newspape ...
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=Local (NI)
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* ''
Ballymena Times''
* ''
Ballymoney and Moyle Times
The ''Ballymoney and Moyle Times'' is a regional newspaper covering the north-east area of Northern Ireland. The paper is owned by the holding company Johnston Publishing (NI)
Johnston Publishing (NI) is a large newspaper group in Northern Irelan ...
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* ''
Carrick Times
Carrick is an Anglicised version of ''creag/carraig'', Gaelic for "rock", and may refer to:
People
*Carrick (surname)
* Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick (died 1250), Scottish Mormaer and first Earl of Carrick
* Marjorie of Carrick (1256–1292), moth ...
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* ''
Coleraine Times
The ''Coleraine Times'' is a newspaper based in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The paper was taken over by Johnston Press in 2005 and is now part of Johnston Publishing (NI)
Johnston Publishing (NI) is a large newspaper gro ...
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* ''
Dromore Leader
Dromore may refer to:
Places
* Dromore, Ontario, Canada
* Dromore (crater), a crater in the Lunae Palus quadrangle of Mars
Northern Ireland
* Dromore, County Down
* Dromore, County Tyrone
Republic of Ireland
* Dromore, County Clare, townl ...
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* ''
Larne Times
The ''Larne Times'' is a weekly newspaper based in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The paper was taken over by Johnston Press in 2005 from Scottish Radio Holdings and is now operated by the holding company, Johnston Publishing (NI).
In ...
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* ''
Londonderry Sentinel
The ''Londonderry Sentinel'' is a newspaper based in Derry, Northern Ireland. It is published by Johnston Publishing (NI), a holding company of Johnston Press and Peter Hutcheon is the current editor. The ''Roe Valley Sentinel'' is an edition of t ...
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* ''
Lurgan Mail
The ''Lurgan Mail'' was founded in 1889 by Lewis Robert Richardson. The ''Lurgan Mail'' is a tabloid weekly newspaper based in Lurgan, County Armagh in Northern Ireland. It is published on Wednesday evenings, though each edition always bears the ...
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* ''
Mid Ulster Mail
The ''Mid-Ulster Mail'' is a newspaper based in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. As well as serving Tyrone, it also covers Magherafelt, County Londonderry. It is published by Johnston Publishing (NI), part of Johnston Press
John ...
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* ''
Portadown Times
The ''Portadown Times'' is a newspaper based in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK. It is published by Johnston Publishing (NI), part of Johnston Press who own thirty-seven papers across Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ul ...
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* ''
Newtownabbey Times
Newtownabbey ( ) is a large settlement in North Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is separated from the rest of the city by Cavehill and Fortwilliam golf course. It surrounds Carnmoney Hill, and was formed from the merging of severa ...
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* ''
Tyrone Times
The ''Tyrone Times'', more correctly known as the ''Tyrone Times and Dungannon Gazette'', is a newspaper based in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was published by Johnston Publishing (NI), which was part of Johnston Press and was ...
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* ''
Ulster Star
The ''Ulster Star'' is a newspaper based in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is published by a holding company titled Johnston Publishing (NI), part of Johnston Press. Among its photographers were John Kelly John or Jack Kelly may r ...
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=Free titles (NI)
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* ''Banbridge & District Weekender''
* ''
Belfast News
The ''Belfast News'' is a weekly free-sheet spin-off from the Belfast ''News Letter''. It is published by Johnston Publishing (NI), a holding company for Johnston Press who owns thirty-seven titles across Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ...
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* ''Craigavon Echo''
* ''East Antrim Advertiser''
* ''Lisburn Echo''
* ''Mid Ulster Echo''
* ''North West Echo''
Derry Journal newspapers
=Local (Derry Journal)
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* ''
Derry Journal
The ''Derry Journal'' is a newspaper based in Derry, Northern Ireland, serving Derry as well as County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. It is operated by a Johnston Press holding company entitled Derry Journal Newspapers. The paper is publ ...
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* ''
Sunday Journal
The ''Sunday Journal'' is a local newspaper published in Derry, Northern Ireland that was launched in March 2004 as part of the Derry Journal newspaper group. The paper is the only local paper on the island of Ireland to be published on a Sunda ...
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=Free titles (Derry Journal)
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* ''
City News''
* ''
Foyle News Foyle may refer to:
* The River Foyle in Ireland
** Lough Foyle, an estuary of the River Foyle
Entities named for the River Foyle
* BBC Radio Foyle, local radio station
* Foyle (Assembly constituency)
* Foyle (Northern Ireland Parliament consti ...
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