The Bolton News
The Bolton News (originally the Bolton Evening News) is a daily and evening tabloid newspaper sold from Mondays to Saturdays in the town of Bolton in north-western Greater Manchester (formerly south-eastern Lancashire) and across the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, including Horwich, Bradshaw, Little Lever, Farnworth and Westhoughton.
It was founded in 1867 and claims, at the time, to have been Britain’s first community evening halfpenny newspaper. (The Shields Gazette is the UK’s oldest evening newspaper; it switched from weekly to evening publication in 1855 and thus predates The Bolton News by 12 years.) It remained in the hands of its founders, the Tillotson family, until 1971, when it was sold to the New York-based St Regis International company. Reed International took it over in 1982; it became part of Newsquest on that company’s foundation as a management buy-out of Reed in 1996.
The editorial offices are in Bolton’s Churchgate, where they moved in 1987, and are shared with the companion weekly freesheet, the Bolton Journal. However, since 2009 the sub-editors have been based at the offices of the Lancashire Telegraph in Blackburn.
The newspaper changed name to The Bolton News in 2006 and extended from evening to morning sales at the same time.
An e-edition’s available online by paid subscription.
- Website:
- http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/
- Address:
- The Bolton News
Newspaper House
Churchgate
BOLTON
BL1 1DE
- Tel:
- 01204 522345
- Fax:
- 01204 537068
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