Ballymena Times
The Ballymena Times is a weekly tabloid newspaper sold in and around the town of Ballymena in central County Antrim.
It’s been owned and published by Morton Newspapers, a branch of Johnston Press’s Johnston Publishing (NI) division, since 1986. Its origins go back much further, however, to Ballymena’s first newspaper, the Ballymena Observer, founded in 1855 by the Weir family as a broadsheet. The Belfast Telegraph Group took over the Observer in the 1970s, and a change in format to tabloid in the early 1980s was accompanied by a change of name – to the Ballymena Times & Ballymena Observer (with the emphasis on the Times). Morton Newspapers was itself the subject of a takeover by Johnston which was completed in 2005.
The Ballymena Times has its offices in Ballymena. There’s a local sub-edition for Antrim, the Antrim Times.
It’s published on Tuesdays.
- Website:
- http://www.ballymenatimes.com/
- Address:
- Ballymena Times
22 Ballymoney Street
BALLYMENA
BT43 6AL
- Tel:
- 028 2565 3300
- Fax:
- 028 2564 1517
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