South London Press

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South London Press, London Weekly News & Mercury
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s)MSI Media Limited
Founder(s) James Henderson
Founded1865
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication2025
HeadquartersUnit 112, 160 Bromley Road, Catford London SE6 2NZ
Circulation 63,000 (Fridays)(as of July 2017) [1]
Website londonnewsonline.co.uk
The original South London Press building based in Elephant & Castle South London Press building and Elephant and Castle tube station - geograph.org.uk - 604596.jpg
The original South London Press building based in Elephant & Castle

The South London Press, London Weekly News and Mercury (formerly South London Press) was a weekly newspaper published in South East London. The newspaper covered news, sports and features within the south, central and west London area from 1865 to 2025.

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History

The newspaper was first published by James Henderson in 1865. [2]

Between 2007 and 2016 the paper was part of the Tindle Group, which bought it from Trinity Mirror. The paper was then purchased between 2017 and 2019 by Street Runners Ltd.

In 2017 the newspaper entered a 'media partnership' with Millwall F.C. [3]

In 2019, the Greenwich Mercury was merged into the Press. [4]

The paper ceased in May 2025. [5]

Notable staff

Many of its former reporters have gone on to make careers in Fleet Street, and it is still considered a training ground for the nationals. Max Wall and then Richard Woolveridge edited the bi-weekly in its glory days when its circulation was over 130,000. The novelist and critic Martyn Bedford used to work in the Lewisham office of the paper, while Brian Alexander, the former sports editor of The Sun and Mail on Sunday, was sports editor until 1986. Paul McCarthy, sports editor of the News of the World , John Pienaar, political correspondent and reporter on BBC Radio 5 Live, and David Bond, who was appointed as the BBC's sports editor in 2010, worked at the SLP in the 1980s and 1990s. Others who went on to Fleet Street include Ken Reynolds, Steve Grimes, George Binyon, Willie Robertson, John Twomey, Ian Malin, Debbie Andalo, Brian Stater, Ev Bramble, Carolyn Jones, Anna Pukas, JJ Young, Jonathan Buckmaster, Chris Ward, Stewart Morris, Claire Aaron, Anton La Guardia, Brian McConnell, Peter Burden, Ron Ricketts, Geoff Manners, John Rodda and Colin Wood. Publicist Max Clifford was also an employee. [6]

Awards

The South London Press won the Press Gazette Regional Press Awards 2009 Newspaper of the Year for weekly newspapers above 20,000 circulation. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "South London Press (Fri) Publication Data". Newspaper Reports. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "South London Press makes Tuesday edition digital-only". HoldtheFrontPage. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Millwall announce new South London Press partnership". Millwall F.C. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  4. ↑ Walker, James (9 April 2019). "Greenwich Mercury loses dedicated print title in merger with South London Press". Press Gazette. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  5. ↑ Tobitt, Charlotte (27 May 2025). "South London Press closes down after 160 years covering UK capital". Press Gazette. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  6. ↑ Clifford, Max; Levin, Angela (2005). Max Clifford: Read All About it!. Virgin Books. ISBN   978-1-85227-237-1.
  7. ↑ "Regional Press Awards 2009: the full list of winners". Press Gazette . 8 May 2009. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
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