The Milton Keynes Citizen is the only freely distributed local newspaper in

Milton Keynes Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...

. The newspaper is part of

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. The ''MK Citizen'' was founded by Bill Alder and Jerry West on 1 October 1981 and they sold to

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in 1987 and the purchase was completed in April 1990. Emap sold the paper to Johnston Publishing in the 1990s.

Distribution

The ''Milton Keynes Citizen'' is distributed freely across Milton Keynes and its

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on Thursday. There was formerly a more limited circulation Tuesday sister paper, Citizen First which was distributed on Tuesdays (this was formerly the Citizen on Sunday but changed when MK News launched on Wednesdays). This is no longer published. The paper's main print competitor was the ''

MK News OneMK (formerly ''MK News'') was a local weekly free newspaper and online news service, based in Milton Keynes. ''MK News'' launched in August 2002 and was delivered to homes across the Milton Keynes urban area and to commuters at Milton Keynes C ...

'', part of

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Ltd., which closed in October 2016.

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* Newspapers published in Buckinghamshire Milton Keynes Newspapers published by Johnston Press 1981 establishments in England Newspapers established in 1981 {{England-newspaper-stub