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This note considers the Tindle Newspapers group.
Farnham-based Tindle publishes over 225 daily and weekly
titles in the UK, most with tiny circulations and many
more than 100 years old. Overall circulation in 2003 was
585,997.
It also owns 14 UK radio stations.
The group was founded by Sir Ray Tindle (1927- ) in 1950,
reportedly using his £300 demobilisation pay from
1947. He has attracted attention for editorial invention,
notably his 2003 direction to editors at the beginning
of the second Iraq War
When
British troops come under fire, however, as now seems
probable, I ask you to ensure that nothing appears in
the columns of your newspapers which attacks the decision
to conduct the war.
In
July 2007 Tindle acquired 27 weeklies and nine niche titles
from Trinity Mirror: South London Press (eight titles,
including the Streatham Post and Greenwich Mercury, with
a combined circulation of 240,900), North London &
Herts Newspapers (eight titles, including the Tottenham
Advertiser and Potters Bar Press, with a combined circulation
of 238,582), Yellow Advertiser (11 titles, including the
Barking & Dagenham and Ilford & Redbridge Yellow
Advertisers, with a combined distribution of 465,230),
Your Local Directory, Great Days Out, Christmas in South
London and Career Track.
holdings
Titles include -
- Abergavenny
Chronicle
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Alton Gazette
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Alton Times & Mail
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Barry Cowbridge & Llantwit Major - Gem
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Bordon Times & Mail
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Brecon & Radnor Express & Powys County Times
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Bridgend & District Recorder
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Bromley Borough News
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Cambrian News
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Cornish & Devon Post
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Cornish Times
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Dawlish Gazette
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Farnham Herald
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Fishguard County Echo
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Forest of Dean & Wye Valley Review
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Haslemere Times & Mail
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Ivybridge South Brent & South Hams Gazette
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Kingsbridge Salcombe & South Hams Gazette
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Launceston Bude & Stratton Gazette
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Liphook Times & Mail
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Liskeard & Looe Gazette
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Mid Devon Advertiser
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Monmouthshire Beacon
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Montgomeryshire Tribune Series
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Narberth & Whitland Observer
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Petersfield Mail
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Plympton Plymstock & Ivybridge News
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Pulman's Weekly News (Axminster)
- Ross
Gazette
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South Hams Gazette & Dartmouth Chronicle
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South Powys Tribune
- Surrey
& Hants News
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Tavistock Times Gazette
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Teignmouth News
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Tenby Observer
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Totnes News
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Totnes Times
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West Somerset Free Press
- West
Somerset Trader
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Westerham - County Border News
landmarks
1950 buys Tooting & Balham News for £250
1979 sells Plymouth Sunday Independent to Yattendon
1995 sells 80% stake in London Recorder Newspapers Ltd
(nine titles) to INM for around
£2m
1997 INM acquires Tindle's stake in INM
2002 acquires Y Cymro newspaper and Radio Ceredigion
2002 buys Radio magazine from Howard Rose
2002 sells Westmorland Messenger and related
assets to Gannett's Newsquest
2004 buys Plymouth Sunday Independent from Newsquest
2006 Tindle Radio sells Bridge FM to Town & Country
Broadcasting
2006 buys Somerset Wellington Weekly News (est
1840) from DMGT's Northcliffe Newspapers
2007 buys 27 weekly newspapers and nine niche titles (inc
South London Press) from Trinity
Mirror for £18.75m
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