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''North Wales Weekly News''
Newspapers published in Wales Llandudno Newspapers published by Reach plc 1889 establishments in Wales Newspapers established in 1889 {{UK-newspaper-stub
The ''North Wales Weekly News'' is one of a group of newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
s published weekly in Llandudno
Llandudno (, ) is a seaside resort, town and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea. In the 2011 UK census, the community – which includes Gogarth, Penrhyn Bay, Craigsi ...
.
History
The newspaper was first published on 14 February 1889 by local printer Robert Evans Jones as the ''Weekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood'', a four-pagebroadsheet
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of . Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper format), ta ...
which cost 1d. Jones' brother William built a new printworks in 1900 on Conwy Quay, where the ''Weekly News'' continued to be published until May 1972 when it moved to new purpose-built premises in Llandudno Junction
Llandudno Junction ( cy, Cyffordd Llandudno), once known as Tremarl, is a village in the county borough of Conwy, Wales. It is part of the ancient parish of Llangystennin, and it is located south of Llandudno. It adjoins Deganwy and is to the ...
; shortly afterwards it abandoned hot metal typesetting
In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) is a technology for typesetting text in letterpress printing. This method injects molten type metal into a mol ...
in favour of computerised printing; later technological developments allowed copy to be transmitted to the printworks from branch offices elsewhere in North Wales.
In 1988, the Jones family sold the newspaper to Trinity International plc, with Robert Evans Jones' great-nephew remaining chairman of the new board, and in 2014 the paper celebrated its 125th anniversary.
Sister titles
Related titles cover most of coastalNorth Wales
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. Much of the material published is shared between a number of other titles but with the addition of some local material relevant to each specific title. Sister English language titles include:
*''Abergele Visitor''
*''Bangor and Anglesey Mail''
*''Caernarfon Herald''
*''Denbighshire Visitor''
*''Flintshire Chronicle''
*''Holyhead and Anglesey Mail''
*''Rhyl Visitor''
*''Wrexham Chronicle''
There is also one primarily Welsh language paper, ''Yr Herald''.
The papers are owned and managed by Reach plc (formally Trinity Mirror), who also published the ''Liverpool Daily Post
The ''Liverpool Post'' was a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The newspaper and its website ceased publication on 19 December 2013.
Until 13 January 2012 it was a daily morning newspaper, with the tit ...
'' - a Welsh variant of the '' Daily Post'' - until that ceased publication in December 2013.
References
External links
''North Wales Weekly News''
Newspapers published in Wales Llandudno Newspapers published by Reach plc 1889 establishments in Wales Newspapers established in 1889 {{UK-newspaper-stub