Northants Post

The ''Northants Herald & Post'' was a local weekly newspaper distributed free of charge in Northampton, England, and the surrounding towns and villages. The distribution also included the town of Towcester following the closure of local paid-for newspapers. It was closed by owners Trinity Mirror in December 2016.

Publication history

The newspaper was founded as the ''Northants Post'' in 1975 by a company managed by businessman and journalist Tony Boullemier, who worked for the ''Daily Express'', where he was chief sub-editor. Boullemier was born in Newcastle and originally trained on news and sport with the '' Newcastle Journal''.''Midlands boss Boullemier explores French ancestry in first novel'' Press Gazette 17 May 2007, accessed 18 June 2012

Boullemier and his partners, his wife Marie, Ben Clingain, Richard Pinkham, and for the early years, Richard Meredith, expanded the operation into a group of 16 papers and magazines circulating nearly 400,000 copies a week throughout the east Midlands, before selling the titles to Thomson Regional Newspapers.''Whatever happened to Thomson Newspapers?'' Press Gazette, 7 July 2006, accessed 18 June 2012
The group was later sold to Trinity Mirror.

In 2008 Trinity Mirror carried out a shakeup of its UK Midlands operations seeking job cuts and integration. ''Trinity Mirror seeks job cuts and integration in Midlands shakeup'' 19 August 2008, accessed 18 June 2012
/ref> Trinity decided it would either close the title or sell it. The paper was acquired by LSN Media Ltd (LSN standing for '' Local Sunday Newspapers''). LSN Media publish 13 newspapers across three counties, most of them in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. Iliffe News & Media Ltd are the owners of LSN (which was acquired in August 2005).''British Newspapers Online'' 23 March 2012, accessed 18 June 2012
/ref> Iliffe News & Media are in turn part of the family-owned Yattendon Group, which publishes three daily and nearly 30 weekly paid-for and freesheet newspapers across eastern and central England, notably the ''Cambridge News'', the ''Burton Mail'' and the ''Hertfordshire Mercury'' series. The company dates back to 1840 and was originally a ribbonmakers.''British Newspapers on-line - Illiffe News & Media'' 18 May 2012, accessed 19 June 2012
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The paper's offices were originally in Derngate, Northampton, until 2012, when they were relocated to Lakeside, an office park off the Bedford Road on the eastern outskirts of the town.

In January 2013 the ''Northampton Herald & Post'' became part of Localworld, which subsequently sold out to Trinity Mirror.

In January 2014 the paper's name was changed to the ''Northants Herald & Post''.

On 1 December 2016 Trinity Mirror closed the title down.

Other local papers

The ''Herald & Post'''s main competitor was the weekly '' Northampton Mercury and Citizen'', also delivered free with a circulation of 53,562. This was a cut-down version of the paid-for weekly ''Northampton Chronicle & Echo'' which has larger news and editorial sections.

See also

*List of newspapers in the United Kingdom
Herald & Post e-edition

References

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Newspapers published in Northamptonshire
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