The ''Selby Times'' is a local weekly newspaper covering

Selby Selby is a market town and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse, with a population at the 2011 census of 14,731. The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until ...

and the surrounding district in

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. It is a paid-for title published weekly on Thursdays, and is the sister paper to the Goole Times, with which it shares content and staff.

History

The ''Selby Times'' was first published in 1860 by Mr Bellerby, a printer and publisher. The paper was commended for its 150th anniversary by an

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in the

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in 2010.

Acquisition by Chronicle Publications

In July 2013

Johnston Press Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the '' i'', ''The Scotsman'', the ''Yorkshire Post'', the ''Falkirk Herald'', and Belfast's ''The News Letter'' ...

announced that they had reached agreement to sell the ''Selby Times'' and the ''Goole Courier'', plus the associated websites, to Chronicle Publications Limited. Johnston Press had suffered from strikes in 2011 as a result of plans to reduce the number of job roles in its Yorkshire publications, and the ''Selby Times'' circulation figures released in February 2013 showed a reduction of 17.4% year on year to an average weekly figure of 5,765. Following completion of the acquisition, Chronicle made a number of changes to the ''Selby Times''. These included merging it with the ''Selby Post'', which it had established previously, publishing under the name ''Selby Times & Post'', and moving the publication day back to Wednesday after Johnston Press had amended it from Thursday in 2012.

References

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External links

''Selby Times'' official site
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