Burton Mail

The Burton Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper sold from Mondays to Saturdays in the town of Burton-on-Trent and more widely across eastern and south-eastern Staffordshire (Uttoxeter, Barton-under-Needwood, Lichfield), southern Derbyshire (Melbourne) and the extreme north-west of Leicestershire (Swadlincote, Ashby-de-la-Zouch).

It was founded in 1898 with financial backing from the town’s brewery owners as a Conservative-supporting newspaper in opposition to the established Liberal newspaper the Burton Guardian (now defunct). Since 1957 it’s had no paid opposition; the last remaining rival, the Burton Chronicle, was bought out and merged with the Mail‘s weekly sister title, the Burton Observer. After a couple of decades during which it was owned by the Birmingham Post & Mail group, it was taken over by Staffordshire Newspapers Ltd, part of the Iliffe News & Media group, and continues to be published by them.

A football special, the Burton Football Mail, was founded in 1946.

It was known as the Burton Daily Mail for several years and still retains that name in its address (though not its masthead), although paradoxically it was an evening title (available from lunchtime) until switching to morning publication in 2006.

The editorial offices are in Burton High Street and are collocated with the Staffordshire Newspapers Ltd company offices.

There’s an associated weekly freesheet, the Burton Advertiser.

An e-edition’s available by paid subscription.

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