The ''Sutton Coldfield News'' was a

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serving the area of

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covering the wards of

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, Sutton Vesey,

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and

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. It was owned by the Trinity Mirror group. The newspaper was established in 1869 and closed in November 2011. The final issue was produced in the week commencing 14 November 2011; at the time of its closure ''Sutton Coldfield News'' was a weekly free newspaper owned by Trinity Mirror as part of Trinity Group Midlands. For some time it kept an editorial and sales office on Birmingham Road, a main thoroughfare just off the main shopping precinct of Sutton Coldfield. ''Sutton Coldfield News'' sometimes printed under the title of ''Sutton Coldfield and Erdington'' News in its early history.

References

*''The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield - A Commemorative History'', Douglas V. Jones, 1994, Westwood Press ()
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