The Sutton Coldfield News is a free weekly newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 serving the area of Sutton Coldfield

Sutton Coldfield

Sutton Coldfield is a suburb of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Sutton is located about from central Birmingham but has borders with Erdington and Kingstanding. Sutton is in the northeast of Birmingham, with a population of 105,000 recorded in the 2001 census...

 in Birmingham

Birmingham

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, West Midlands

West Midlands (county)

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, England

England

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. It is owned by the Trinity Mirror

Trinity Mirror

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 group.

The newspaper was established in 1869 making it the oldest newspaper in Sutton Coldfield. It sometimes printed under the title of Sutton Coldfield and Erdington News in its early history. It is now a major newspaper in the area, which is also home to the Sutton Coldfield Observer

Sutton Coldfield Observer

The Sutton Coldfield Observer is a free local newspaper serving the residents of Sutton Coldfield in Birmingham, England. Launched in 1985, it took over from the Sutton Coldfield Times newspaper...

newspaper.

The newspaper editor is Pam Thomas and has a current distribution number of 65,420 per week, compared with 57,124 for the Sutton Observer.