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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
antecedents
1737
Belfast News Letter launched
1832
Newcastle Journal launched
1842 Scottish Daily Record launched
1855
Liverpool Daily Post launched
1859 Sporting Life launched
1879 Liverpool Echo launched
1857
launch of Birmingham Post
1870 launch of Birmingham Mail
1869
Cardiff Western Mail launched
1870
launch of Belfast Telegraph
1881
launch of The People
1884
South Wales Echo launched
1891
Coventry Evening Telegraph launched
1895
Daily Record launched
1903 Alfred Harmsworth launches
Daily Mirror as a 'paper for gentlewomen'
1904 Liverpool Echo merges with Liverpool Mercury
1904 Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd formed
1914
Harmsworths launch Sunday Mail
1915 launch of Sunday Pictorial
1919
launch of Newcastle Sunday Sun
1936
Daily Record becomes first major UK newspaper to
carry colour pictures
the Mirror era
1947 Harmsworths float Daily Mirror
1949 Daily Mirror buys Melbourne Argus
1957 Liverpool Daily Post buys Birkenhead News Group
1957 buys Stephenson Newspapers of Southport
1957 Daily Mirror sells Melbourne Argus to Herald
& Weekly Times (H&WT)
1957 Daily Mirror closes Glasgow Evening News
1958 buys Red Deer Advocate, first Canadian newspaper
1963 Sunday Pictorial renamed Sunday Mirror
1964
Daily Mirror's circulation at five million is
highest in Europe.
1971
Daily Record is first mass-circulation UK daily
to print in colour
1972 The People renamed Sunday People and
becomes tabloid
1978 Liverpool Post buys first US newspaper
1979 Lonrho buys Scottish & Universal Investments
(SUITS) inc George Outram (Glasgow Herald and Evening
Times) and Scottish & Universal Newspapers (SUN),
Scotland's largest group of paid and free newspapers
1983 The Weekender launched
1984 Liverpool Weekly Star launched
Maxwell and Trinity
1984
Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Holdings
buys MGN, owners of the Daily Mirror, from Reed
for £113m
1984
Liverpool Post & Echo group restructured as Trinity
International Holdings, with Liverpool Post & Echo
operations transferred to subsidiary of holding company
1988 Trinity International Holdings renamed Trinity plc,
buys North Wales Independent Press (weeklies) for £5.6m
1989
Wales On Sunday launched
1991 Maxwell raises £245.5m by floating 49% of Mirror
Group
1991 Maxwell assumed to have committed suicide after looting
his companies
1991 Trinity buys Merseymart free newspaper group
expansion by Trinity
1992 Trinity sells paper and packaging interests for £27m
1992 Trinity buys Scottish & Universal Newspapers
(SUN), Scotland's largest group of paid and free newspapers
from Lonrho for £45m
1992 Mirror sells The European to Barclay
brothers
1993 Trinity buys Huddersfield Daily Examiner and
other Joseph Woodhead & Sons assets
1993 buys Reading Newspaper Company and South London Press
1993 buys 26 titles from Argus for £23m
1994
Mirror Group moves to Canary Wharf
1995
Cable channel Live TV launched by Mirror
1996
Trinity becomes largest regional publisher in UK through
purchase of UK Thomson Regional
Newspapers for £327.5m
1996 buys Kentish Mercury newspaper chain from Pearson
expansion by Mirror
1996 Mirror buys 90% stake in Belfast News Letter for
£15m
1997
Mirror Group buys Midland Independent Newspapers (MIN)
for £297 million - portfolio includes Birmingham Post
& Mail Ltd, North Midlands titles previously owned
by Newsquest and exhibitions and magazine company Inside
Communications
1997 Mirror Group gains licence to publish the Racing
Post
1997 Trinity buys Dublin-based Sunday Business Post
1997 sells Red Deer Advocate and 32 other
Canadian newspapers to Black
Press for US$58m
1998
The Sporting Life published its final issue as
a racing paper
1998 Mirror buys Derry Journal group for £18.25m
1998 sells 46% stake in Independent and Independent
on Sunday to INM
1998
Voice Media call handling bureau established
1999 Live TV ceases
1999
Trinity pulled out of merger talks with Mirror Group.
Regional Independent Media (RIM) then bids £913m
1999 Mirror Group turns down a £972m offer from
Trinity
1999 Mirror Group sells its 18.6% holding in Scottish
Media Group to Granada for £110m
1999 Mirror sells former Holborn headquarters for £40m
1999 Welsh Mirror launched
1999 Mirror launches M weekly women's magazine
Trinity Mirror
1999 Trinity International and Mirror merge in deal that
valued the latter at £1.2bn
2000 Trinity Mirror announces plans to invest £150m
in internet strategy
2000 as a condition of merger, Trinity Mirror sells Belfast
Telegraph and Sunday Life to O'Reilly's
Independent News & Media for £300m
2000 buys Southnews group of over 80 titles for £285m
2001
sells ic24 ISP
2001 Trinity Mirror had a capitalisation of £1.34bn
2002 sells Sunday Business Post in Dublin to
Thomas Crosbie for €10m
2002 sells Ethnic Media Group (Eastern Eye, New
Nation and three other national titles) to £10m MBO
2003 agrees to sell Irish regional newspapers (inc Belfast
News Letter and Derry Journal) to 3i for
£46.3m
2005 launches then closes Communities Today
2006 closes West Midlands newspaper Sports Argus
2006 sells magazine and exhibitions arm Inside Communications
to MBO for £41.5m (Inside becomes Ocean Media)
2006 agrees to sell consultancy division of Hotgroup for
£11.2m to Ochre House
2006 anounces plans to sell most of regional newspaper
holdings
2007 sells East Surrey & Sussex Newspapers, Kent Regional
Newspapers and Blackmore Vale Publishing to Northcliffe
Media (DMGT) for £65m
2007 agrees to selll Berkshire Regional Newspapers (14
titles, including Reading Chronicle) to Dunfermline
Press for £10m
2007 sells 27 weekly newspapers and nine niche titles
(inc South London Press) to Tindle
for £18.75m
2008 announces closure of the Derby Trader, Peterborough
Herald & Post, Ilkeston Trader, Ripley Trader, Belper
Bugle, Stamford Herald & Post, Whittlesey Standard
and Deepings Standard
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