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The Leigh Times Series is a group of local English newspapers based in Essex owned and run by the Tindle Newspaper Group since 2008. [1]
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The Leigh Times Series is a group of local English newspapers based in Essex owned and run by the Tindle Newspaper Group since 2008. [1]
The Leigh Times was started in 1983 [2] in Leigh-On-Sea by Michael and Shirley Guy. [3] [4] The group went on to launch various local titles including Rayleigh Times, The Canvey and Benfleet Times and The Southend Times (ceased 2009). [5] The group was purchased by Tindle Newspaper Group in 2008 after Michael and Shirley Guy decided to retire. [6] The family still have connection to the paper with Michael's children Michael and Lisa still working for the business.
Southend historian and author Ian Yearsley began his career with the Leigh Times.
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Viscount Stansgate, of Stansgate in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1942 for the Labour politician, former Secretary of State for India and future Secretary of State for Air, William Wedgwood Benn. He was the second son of Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet, of The Old Knoll. Stansgate's eldest son and heir apparent, Michael Benn, was later killed in the Second World War. Consequently, he was succeeded in the title by his second son, the Labour politician Tony Benn, who disclaimed the peerage on 31 July 1963, the day the Peerage Act 1963 passed into law and made it possible for him to do so. As of 2022, the title is held by Tony Benn's eldest son, Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate.
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