The News and Star is a local tabloid newspaper in Cumbria

Cumbria

Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...

. Today it belongs to the CN Group

CN Group

The CN Group Limited is an independent local media business based in Carlisle which operates in three different media fields.The company was formerly known as the Cumbrian Newspapers Group Ltd but changed its name to reflect the fact that is no longer primarily a newspaper publisher...

 Ltd who produce several regional newspapers in the north west of England

North West England

North West England, informally known as The North West, is one of the nine official regions of England.North West England had a 2006 estimated population of 6,853,201 the third most populated region after London and the South East...

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The Newspaper is published every day from Monday to Thursday and on Saturdays and is available throughout North and West Cumbria and parts of Southern Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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It has a daily circulation of approximately 25,084 copies (Jul-Dec 2005), with a readership figure of around 72,094.http://www.cngroup.co.uk/publishing/ns_read.html

External links

• www.newsandstar.co.uk
• www.cngroup.co.uk