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TheNorth Wales Weekly News is one of a group ofnewspapers published weekly inLlandudno.
The newspaper was first published on 14 February 1889 by local printer Robert Evans Jones as theWeekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood, a four-pagebroadsheet which cost1d.[1] Jones' brother William built a new printworks in 1900 on Conwy Quay, where theWeekly News continued to be published until May 1972 when it moved to new purpose-built premises inLlandudno Junction; shortly afterwards it abandonedhot metal typesetting in favour of computerised printing; later technological developments allowed copy to be transmitted to the printworks from branch offices elsewhere in North Wales.[1]In 1988, the Jones family sold the newspaper toTrinity International plc, with Robert Evans Jones' great-nephew remaining chairman of the new board, and in 2014 the paper celebrated its 125th anniversary.[1]
Related titles cover most of coastalNorth Wales. Much of the material published is shared between a number of other titles but with the addition of some local material relevant to each specific title. Sister English language titles include:
There is also one primarily Welsh language paper,Yr Herald.
The papers are owned and managed byReach plc (formally Trinity Mirror), who also published theLiverpool Daily Post – a Welsh variant of theDaily Post – until that ceased publication in December 2013.
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