Research on Local Newspapers

Metro London

• Launched - 16th March 1999

• Owner of paper – Daily Mail and General Trust, owning other newspapers such as metros, for Metro (Brighton), Metro (Cardiff, Swansea & Newport), Metro (East Midlands) , Metro (Liverpool), Metro (North East), Metro (North West), Metro (Scotland), Metro (West Country), Metro (West Midlands), Metro (Yorkshire), and including many other newspapers across the regions locally.

• Product type – Bulk Distribution, meaning they distributed in large amounts instead of smaller. • Total distribution figure for newspaper - 762,541

• Registered under the ABC website since 1999.

The Bromley Times

• Owned by Archant Ltd

• Joined ABC in 1986, but is no longer register under ABC now.

• Sector based in Kent.

• Former names - Bromley & District Express and Orpington & Chislehurst Express (Archant Ltd), Bromley & Orpington Leader (Archant Ltd)

• Distribution figures - 29,631 Total Average Net Circulation / Distribution per Issue.

• Product type is Regional Publication.

• Including the suburbs of Orpington, Chislehurst, Biggin Hill and Beckenham.

• It’s published by Kentish Times Newspapers, a branch of Archant London

• Editors of paper are based in Sidcup.

Bromley News shopper

• Owned by Newquest Media Group

• Editor Andrew Parkes

• Sector based in is Kent

• Former names - Bromley News Shopper Series (News Shopper Ltd)

• Product type is Regional publications.

• First Joined ABC in 1986

• Distribution Figures - 73,770 Total Average Net Circulation / Distribution Per Issue

• Still registered under ABC.