History
The newspaper was founded as the Burnley Express and East Lancashire Observer, by printer George Frankland, from Preston, as an eight-page penny weekly. It was politically Conservative. It merged with the Burnley Advertiser in 1880, becoming the Burnley Express and Advertiser, and in 1886, it became the Burnley Express and Clitheroe Division Advertiser.
It became the Express and News, after merging with the liberal Burnley News, in 1933. [3] Historical copies of the Burnley Express, dating back to 1877, are available to search and view in digitised form, at The British Newspaper Archive. [3]
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