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chronology is indicative only.
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline.
1767 Johnston printing house founded in Edinburgh
1846 buys Falkirk Herald
1978 buys Derbyshire Times
1988 IPO on London Stock Exchange
1994 buys Halifax Courier Holdings for £29.4m
1995 buys W&J Linney Ltd for £20m
1996 buys EMAP Newspapers for £211m
1996 buys Doncaster Newspapers from Newsquest for £15m
1996 sells Bury Times and other papers to Newsquest
for £5.7m
1997 sells Cambridge Town Crier
1997 buys North Derbyshire Newspapers
1998 buys Herald Newspapers (Beds & Bucks) and Home Counties
for £8m
1998 buys Arbroath Herald for £1m
1999 buys Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers for £266m
1999 buys Tweedale Press
2000 buys Glasgow East News
2000 buys Four Counties Newspapers from Southnews for
£16.5m
2000 buys Lincoln Standard Group
2001 buys Horncastle News, Louth News, Skegness News,
Market Rasen Mail
2002 buys Regional Independent Media, publisher of the
Yorkshire Post, for £560m
2002 sells Galloway Gazette and Stornoway Gazette to Scottish
Radio Holdings
2005 buys Scottish Radio Holdings' 35 weekly newspapers
for £155m
2005 pays £93.9m for Leinster Leader group in Ireland
2005 Barclays sell The Scotsman,
Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday
to Johnston for £160m
2007 Johnston buys three paid-for papers in north-east
Scotland and five free papers in central Scotland from
Archant for £11.2m
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