Lichfield Mercury

The Lichfield Mercury is a weekly freesheet tabloid newspaper delivered to homes in the cathedral city of Lichfield and other towns in south-eastern Staffordshire, including Burntwood (which has its own local sub-edition, the Burntwood Mercury), Brownhills, Armitage and Barton-under-Needwood. (A third title, the Rugeley Mercury, ceased publication in late 2010.)

It was founded in June 1815 (the back page carried news from the Battle of Waterloo). However, its original title was considerably longer: The Lichfield Mercury, Tamworth, Burton, and Walsall Gazette, and Staffordshire and Warwickshire General Advertiser!

It’s now published by Tamworth-based Central Independent Newspapers, which despite the name is part of Northcliffe Media, the regional newspaper division of the Daily Mail & General Trust. Both titles in the Mercury series share the same editorial offices in Lichfield.

Since its website at thisislichfield.co.uk was withdrawn in 2011 it no longer has a website as such, although it does contribute news to Northcliffe’s lichfieldpeople.co.uk website (to which the old URL now redirects).

Although it’s mostly distributed free, a few copies are sold through newsagents.

It comes out on Thursdays.

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