Cambridge News
Cambridge News Headquarters
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Local World |
| Founded | 1888 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Milton, Cambridgeshire |
| Circulation | 20,987 (December 2010-June 2011) |
| Website | www.cambridge-news.co.uk |
The Cambridge News (formerly the Cambridge Evening News) is a British daily newspaper published each weekday and on Saturdays. It is distributed from its Milton base. In the period December 2010-June 2011, it had an average daily circulation of 20,987.
The paper was founded by William Farrow Taylor as the Cambridge Daily News in 1888, and after a slow start saw sales rise as an appetite for knowledge of the news and sport grew among the Cambridge public. As its following steadily grew, the fledgling paper survived the need for modernisation in the early twentieth century (Captain Archibald Taylor, son of the founder, was the first managing director to introduce a standard typeface during this time, for example), the uncertain economic climate during the 1920s and 1930s and the printing shortages of the Second World War.
In the 1920s the Taylors sold the paper to the Iliffe family, who sold it in 1938 and then reacquired it in 1959, moving it to a larger premises on Newmarket Road: they continued to turn the paper into a profit-making business under the new name of the Cambridge Evening News, starting in 1969. The headquarters moved from Newmarket Road to Milton in 1998. In 2012, Local World acquired the title from Yattendon Group.
In 2007 the paper started publishing an early-morning "Sunrise" edition titled simply Cambridge News, as well as the afternoon edition. In 2008, the evening edition was stopped. As the paper now only has a morning edition; "Evening" has been removed from the paper's title.
The Cambridge News also has eight sister papers with a more local circulation as part of the Weekly News series: Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives and St Neots (all in Cambridgeshire), Haverhill and Newmarket (in Suffolk), Royston (in Hertfordshire) and Saffron Walden (in Essex).
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