''Stockport Express'' is the local

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of Stockport,

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. It had an average circulation of 5,217 copies per issue in 2017. It is published every Wednesday. The sister free paper the Stockport Times, published every Thursday and distributed to households in the

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, has a circulation of 83,709. The editor of both publications is Paul Harrison. In 2009, along with all regional and local newspapers run by M.E.N media, the offices for the Stockport Express were relocated from Stockport,

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. In 2010, the owners

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, sold the Stockport Express along with a number of other local newspaper titles to competitor Trinity Mirror plc, the deal included the

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. The ''Stockport Express'' has won both local and national awards including 1999 Community Newspaper of the Year.

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