Bouverie Street is a street in the

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, off Fleet Street, which once was the home of some of Britain's most widely circulated newspapers as well as the Whitefriars Priory. The offices of the ''

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'',''Liberal Democrat News'' 15 October 2010, accessed 29 October 2010 a British daily paper, were based there until it ceased publication on 17 October 1960 after being absorbed into the '' Daily Mail''. The '' News of the World'' had its offices at No. 30 until its move to Wapping in the mid-1980s. Bouverie Street was also the location of the offices of ''

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'' magazine until the 1990s, and for some decades of those of Lutterworth Press, one of Britain's oldest independent publishers, celebrated for ''

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'' and its sister ''

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''. The street's name comes from the landlords of the area, the Pleydell-Bouveries, Earls of Radnor. The Planet News Press Photo Agency was based at 8 Bouverie Street until the WWII Blitz forced them to relocate to no. 3 Johnson's Court, just across Fleet Street. The surviving glass plate negative collection is owned by TopFoto.

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