Sutton Coldfield Observer
The Sutton Coldfield Observer is a weekly freesheet newspaper for the town of Sutton Coldfield in the suburbs of north-eastern Birmingham and surrounding parts of south-eastern Staffordshire up as far north as the A5 (Watling Street).
It’s published by Central Independent Newspapers, the West Midlands branch of Northcliffe Media (itself the regional publishing arm of the Daily Mail & General Trust), from their headquarters in Tamworth.
It was founded in 1985 in the wake of the closure of the Sutton Coldfield Times. For a time in the late 1990s it had a number of local editions including the Vesey Observer, the Little Aston Observer and the Streetly Observer.
Although it’s fundamentally a freesheet, a very small proportion of the print run (about one per cent) is sold through the news trade.
There’s a sister freesheet covering North West Birmingham: the Great Barr Observer.
It prides itself on being a campaigning newspaper, and claims some of the credit for saving Sutton Coldfield Magistrates’ Court from closure in 2004.
In common with most Northcliffe newspapers, since 2011 it’s no longer had a site of its own. The old URL at thisissuttoncoldfield.co.uk now redirects to a new local portal website at suttoncoldfield-people.co.uk, for which the Observer merely provides news stories.
It comes out on Fridays.
- Address:
- Sutton Coldfield Observer
Ventura Park Road
Bitterscote
TAMWORTH
B78 3LZ
- Tel:
- 01827 848586
- Fax:
- 01827 848511
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