The Bolton News
(c) Newsquest
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| Type | Daily newspaper/website |
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| Format | Tabloid and online |
| Owner(s) | Newsquest |
| Founder(s) | W. F. Tillotson |
| Publisher | Newsquest |
| Editor-in-chief | Ian Savage |
| News editor | Maxine Wolstenholme |
| Sports editor | Neil Bonnar |
| Photo editor | Gus Sivyer |
| Founded | 1867 |
| Headquarters | Bolton, England |
| Circulation | 9,607 (57,508 daily online) |
| Sister newspapers | Bury Times, Radcliffe Times, Prestwich & Whitefield Guide |
| ISSN | 1752-3001 |
| Website | www.theboltonnews.co.uk |
The Bolton News – formerly the Bolton Evening News – is a daily newspaper and news website covering the towns of Bolton and Bury in north-western England. Published each morning from Monday to Saturday and online every day, it is part of the Newsquest media group, a subsidiary of the U.S media giant Gannett Inc.
The editor of The Bolton News is Ian Savage and the newspaper has an approximate circulation of 9,607.
On 11 September 2006 the Bolton Evening News became The Bolton News, which saw the newspaper being sold from the morning onwards. It considered several names, including Bolton Daily News and Bolton News. Newsquest bought these internet domain names in May 2006.
The Bolton News' head of content is Lynn Ashwell. The news editor is Maxine Wolstenholme and the sports editor is Neil Bonnar. The website, theboltonnews.co.uk, is currently overseen by multimedia editor Melanie Disley. It has 57,508 daily unique users.
The Bolton Evening News was Britain's first community evening halfpenny newspaper. The only other evening paper to publish before The Bolton Evening News was the Shipping Gazette in South Shields.
The very first edition of The Bolton Evening News was founded by the Tillotson family and was published on Tuesday 19 March 1867 – with the front page entirely devoted to adverts. But the origins of the paper stretch way back to 1834 when John Tillotson was apprenticed to printer Robert Marsden Holden, who had premises in Mealhouse Lane, Bolton. Tillotson eventually married his boss's daughter and took over the business in 1850. His son, William Frederick Tillotson, became apprenticed to his father. He managed to persuade his father to help him launch the first Bolton Evening News, which stretched to four pages. William Frederick Tillotson married Mary Lever on 20 April 1870. Severe difficulties dogged WF Tillotson's early enterprise but he persevered and the Evening News really took off under the first editor William Brimelow. Legend has it that the job application process then could be traumatic. Brimelow is said to have had a habit of throwing a book on the ground just as potential applicants entered the office to see what their reaction was.
Following on from the success of the evening paper the weekly Journals followed: Bolton Weekly Journal 1871 (which merged with the Bolton Guardian in 1893 to become the Bolton Journal and Guardian),Farnworth Weekly Journal 1873, Leigh, Tyldesley and Atherton Journal 1874, Eccles and Patricroft Journal 1874, Horwich and Westhoughton Journal 1925, and the Stretford and Urmston in 1960.
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