Bromley Times

The Bromley Times is a weekly freesheet tabloid newspaper for the London Borough of Bromley on the south-eastern outskirts of Greater London, including the suburbs of Orpington, Chislehurst, Biggin Hill and Beckenham.

It’s published by Kentish Times Newspapers, a branch of Archant London (which itself is a division within the Archant media group’s newspaper publishing division, Archant Regional). The editorial offices were in Sidcup until early August 2011, but have now moved to Archant London’s offices in Ilford.

At some point in the mid-2000s it absorbed another newspaper, the Bromley Express, and up until at least January 2010 it carried the words “incorporating Bromley Express” in its masthead. However, that has now been dropped.

It’s distributed by several different means – besides the door-to-door deliveries, a small number of copies are also sold in supermarkets and petrol stations, and more are distributed by handout at Bromley South railway station and the Walnuts Shopping Centre in Orpington. An e-edition’s also available on the website.

Several new sub-editions for hand distribution were launched in late 2009:

• Beckenham Times
• Biggin Hill Times
• Chislehurst Times

It comes out on Thursdays.

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