The Birmingham Daily News , Europe's first free daily newspaper , was launched in Birmingham , England in October 1984.
5-462: The paper was created by local entrepreneurs Chris Bullivant and his wife Pat, and was edited by David Scott. It was published from offices at Five Ways and delivered free to 276,000 houses around the Birmingham and Solihull areas. Reed Regional Newspapers, part of the media giant Reed Elsevier , bought a 51 per cent stake in the paper in 1987. Although it operated profitably for many years
10-649: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chris Bullivant Chris Bullivant Sr is a British newspaper publisher who with his wife Pat launched the UK's first free daily title, the Daily News , in October 1984. Having set up in excess of 74 newspapers, the Bullivants have now sold off much of their business but still run Bullivant Media, which in 2011 was the 15th-largest newspaper publisher in
15-467: The Birmingham Press , and accompanied by a free edition, The Birmingham Free Press , it was intended to rival Trinity Mirror 's Birmingham Post , but after only a few months the paper went into liquidation with total debts of £347,796. Bullivant blamed the newspaper's collapse on a lack of support from estate agents advertising in the city. Bullivant Media Limited (Company number 06850612)
20-670: The Daily News suffered from the decline in advertising revenue during the early nineties recession . Production was reduced to weekly in June 1991 with the newspaper retitled Birmingham Metronews . This in turn was relaunched as a daily publication in 2000 as the Midland edition of the Metro group, distributed free of charge to commuters travelling by public transport. Notes Bibliography This English newspaper–related article
25-560: The country. They continue to publish weekly newspapers across Warwickshire , Worcestershire and parts of the West Midlands in the southern conurbations around Birmingham and they also publish various award winning magazines including Your Wedding, InsideOut, Flavour and Exclusive Homes. He also released a pair of popular broadsheet Gazettes. In 2010 Bullivant launched a part paid-for weekly newspaper in Birmingham. Called
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