The ''Peterborough Herald and Post'' was a weekly freesheet delivered to households in the city of

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...

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, in the

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. It was run from offices on Cross Street in the city centre, until ceasing operations in 2008. The ''Peterborough Standard'' (established 1872) was published weekly by Sharman Newspapers, under the title Peterborough and

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Standard to 1931. A localised edition was published from 1980 to 1984 and from then titled the

Oundle Oundle () is a market town on the left bank of the River Nene in North Northamptonshire, England, which had a population of 5,735 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census. It is north of London and south-west of Peterborough ...

Standard. This amalgamated with free title the New Classified (established 1981) in 1983, briefly publishing as the Classified Standard. Having expanded to publishing and printing 11 weekly newspapers in the

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region, the publishing side of the business was sold in 1989. Since then Sharman & Co. have been providing newspaper printing services to clients including the major regional publishers, independent local and specialist publishers, corporate communications departments, political parties, foreign language publishers, councils and universities. The ''Herald and Post'' was published from 1989 as a replacement for the ''Standard''. The Oundle ''Herald and Post'' was a localised edition published until 1994. The paper was owned by Midland Weekly Media Ltd., part of Trinity Mirror Plc. The ''Stamford'' ''Herald and Post'', ''

Whittlesey Whittlesey (also Whittlesea) is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England. Whittlesey is east of Peterborough. The population of the parish was 16,058 at the 2011 Census. History and architecture W ...

'' ''Standard'' and '' Deepings'' ''Standard'' were also affected by the closure. An earlier proposal, which would have seen rival

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purchase the papers, was rejected by the

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Regulators scupper regional press deal
Media Guardian, 9 May 2002

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