The ''Liverpool Post'' was a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...

, Merseyside,

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. The newspaper and its website ceased publication on 19 December 2013. Until 13 January 2012 it was a daily morning newspaper, with the title ''The Liverpool Daily Post''. It retained the name ''Liverpool Daily Post'' for its website, which continued to offer a daily service of news, business and sport to the people of Merseyside until the closure of the publication. The ''Liverpool Daily Post'' split from its sister North Wales title, '' The Daily Post'', which still publishes six days a week, in 2003. The newspaper has been published since 1855. Historically the newspaper was published by the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd. The ''Liverpool Daily Post'' was first published in 1855 by

Michael James Whitty Michael James Whitty (born 1795, Nicharee, Duncormick, County Wexford – died 10 June 1873, Princes Park, Liverpool) was an Irish-born English newspaper editor and proprietor. The son of a farmer, maltster and shipowner in the port of Wexford, h ...

. Whitty, a former Chief Constable for Liverpool, had campaigned for the abolition of the Stamp Act under which newspapers were taxed. When the abolition took place, Whitty began publishing the ''Daily Post'' at one penny per copy, undercutting the incumbent best-selling Liverpudlian newspaper, the ''

Liverpool Mercury The ''Liverpool Mercury'' was an English newspaper that originated in Liverpool, England. As well as focusing on local news, the paper also reported on both national and international news allowing it to circulate in Lancashire, Wales, Isle of Man ...

''. In 1904 the ''Liverpool Daily Post'' merged with the ''Liverpool Mercury'' but its title was retained. The limited company expanded internationally and in 1985 was restructured as Trinity Holdings. The two original newspapers had just previously been re-launched in tabloid format. In 1999 Trinity merged with Mirror Group Newspapers to become Trinity Mirror, the largest stable of newspapers in the UK. On 31 January 2009 the ''Daily Post'' published its final Saturday edition, and from then only published Monday-Friday. The ''Daily Post's'' final appearance was on 13 January 2012, after which it became a weekly paper simply known as ''The Liverpool Post'' published every Thursday. In the period December 2010 – June 2011, the ''Liverpool Daily Post'' had an average daily circulation of 8,217 while the ''North Wales Daily Post'' edition had an average daily circulation of 31,802, bringing the total to just over 40,000. On 10 December 2013, the ''Liverpool Post'' announced it was to cease publishing after more than 158 years. The final edition was printed on 19 December 2013. Its sister publication, the '' Liverpool Echo'', is now the sole daily newspaper in Liverpool.

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''Daily Post'' (North Wales edition)icLiverpool news homepage, carries stories from the ''Daily Post'' and ''Echo''
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