Midland News Association is an independent local media business which has interests in print media and the radio industry. It has offices at Queen Street in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...

 and Ketley

Ketley

Ketley is a suburb of the new town of Telford in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is a civil parish. East Ketley is currently being re-developed as part of the Telford Millennium Community, part of the Millennium Communities Programme...

, Telford

Telford

Telford is a large new town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, approximately east of Shrewsbury, and west of Birmingham...

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Broadcasting

MNA operates three radio brands in the Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

 and Worcestershire

Worcestershire

Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

 areas.

• The Severn
  The Severn (radio)
  The Severn is a local commercial station owned by MNA Broadcasting which is split into three areas covering Shrewsbury & Central Shropshire, Oswestry & North Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin in the United Kingdom. The Shrewsbury and Oswesrty radio stations launched at 7am on Monday 18 September 2006...
  
   for Shrewsbury
  Shrewsbury
  Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is a civil parish home to some 70,000 inhabitants, and is the primary settlement and headquarters of Shropshire Council...
  
  , Oswestry
  Oswestry
  Oswestry is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483, and A495 roads....
  
   and Telford & Wrekin
• The Wyre
  The Wyre
  107.2 The Wyre is a local commercial radio station serving Kidderminster, Bewdley Stourport-on-Severn, Stourbridge and Bromsgrove owned by Midlands News Association.The Wyre keeps its output fully for North Worcestershire.....
  
   for Kidderminster
  Kidderminster
  Kidderminster is a town, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately seventeen miles south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately fifteen miles north of Worcester city centre. The 2001 census recorded a population of 55,182 in the town...
  
  , Bewdley
  Bewdley
  Bewdley is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England, along the Severn Valley a few miles to the west of Kidderminster...
  
   and Stourport.

Publishing

• Bridgnorth Journal
• Cannock and Rugeley Chronicle
• Dudley Chronicle
• Express & Star
  Express & Star
  The Express & Star is an evening newspaper based in Wolverhampton, England, published Monday to Saturday in nine different editions covering the Black Country, Birmingham and the wider West Midlands area from Tamworth to Kidderminster. It as widely perceived as being moderately right-wing...
  
  
• Halesowen Chronicle
  Halesowen Chronicle
  The Halesowen Chronicle is a free local newspaper which serves the Halesowen area of the West Midlands in England.It is published by Midland News Association....
  
  
• Hereford Journal
• The Kidderminster Chronicle
• Leominster Journal

• Market Drayton Advertiser
• Mid Wales Journal
• Newport Advertiser
• North Shropshire Chronicle
  North Shropshire Chronicle
  The North Shropshire Chronicle is a local weekly newspaper covering northern Shropshire, England which is published every Thursday.It covers news from the three towns of Wem, Whitchurch and Ellesmere, and many surrounding villages....
  
  
• Ross-on-Wye Journal
• Sandwell Chronicle
• Shrewsbury Chronicle
  Shrewsbury Chronicle
  The Shrewsbury Chronicle is the local newspaper for Shrewsbury and the surrounding area, including Church Stretton, in Shropshire, England....
  
  
• Shropshire Star
  Shropshire Star
  The Shropshire Star is a regional newspaper covering the whole of Shropshire, plus parts of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Cheshire, the Llangollen area and northern Powys in the United Kingdom.-About:The editor is Keith Harrison....
  
  

• South Shropshire Journal
• Sporting Star
• Stourbridge Chronicle
• Telford Journal
• Walsall Chronicle
• Wolverhampton Chronicle

Other

In October 2008, following a major restructuring programme to help the company deal with poor trading, Midlands News Association merged the business functions of the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star and the Shropshire Star in order to save £3m. The result was the loss of 120 jobs.

In October 2009, MNA signed a deal with ITN’s multimedia division ITN ON

ITN ON

ITN ON is a division of British news provider ITN. It creates and distributes news, entertainment and lifestyle content across a wide range of media outlets....

 to take video content to use on its newspapers websites. The deal made the company the first local paper group to take up ITN’s services, following in the footsteps of national papers the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...

 and the Daily Express

Daily Express

The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...

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The final issue of the Ludlow Journal appeared on Friday 2 July 2010.

In June 2010 the Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint against Mary Queally, editor of the Hereford Journal. The complaint was that Queally published an article in advance of the General Election exonerating MP Bill Wiggin of false expenses claims, even though Wiggin was at the time being investigated by the Parliamentary watchdog. The Commission forced the paper to publish a letter stating the truth.
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External links

• MNA Media UK entry