The ''Empire News'' was a Sunday

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in the

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. The newspaper was founded in 1884 in

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

as ''The Umpire''. A penny newspaper, it was the first successful provincial Sunday newspaper in England. Owned by H. S. Jennings, the ''Umpire'' was subtitled "A Sporting, Athletic, Theatrical and General Newspaper", and focused on sports and theatre news.Andrew Davies and Steven Fielding, ''Workers' Worlds'', p.160 In 1894, it absorbed the former daily newspaper, the '' Manchester Examiner and Times''.Joanne Shattock, ''The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'', p.2908 In 1917,

Edward Hulton Sir Edward George Stephen Hulton, 1st Baronet (3 March 1869 – 23 May 1925) was a British newspaper proprietor and thoroughbred racehorse owner. In 1921, he was awarded a baronetcy, of Downside in the parish of Leatherhead in Surrey, for p ...

bought the paper and renamed it the ''Empire'', and shortly after, the ''Empire News''.Gone and (largely) forgotten
", ''British Journalism Review'', Vol. 17, No. 2, 2006, pp.50–52 Along with Hulton's other papers, the ''News'' was acquired by Lord Beaverbrook and then sold to Lord Rothermere, becoming part of Allied Northern Newspapers and later

Kemsley Newspapers James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, GBE (7 May 1883 – 6 February 1968) was a Welsh colliery owner and newspaper publisher. Background Berry was born the son of John Mathias and Mary Ann (née Rowe) Berry, of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. He wa ...

. The paper was renamed the ''Sunday Empire News'' in 1944, but in 1950 became the ''Empire News and the Umpire'' and in 1953 was back to being the ''Empire News''. In 1955, the ''

Sunday Chronicle The ''Sunday Chronicle'' was a newspaper in the United Kingdom, published from 1885 to 1955. The newspaper was founded in Manchester by Edward Hulton in August 1885. He was known for his sporting coverage, already publishing the ''Sporting Chro ...

'' was merged with the ''Empire News'', and the paper's title became the ''Empire News and the Sunday Chronicle''. Roy Thomson bought the paper in 1959, but he merged it into the '' News of the World'' in 1960.

Editors

:1948: Terence Horsley :1949: G. Grafton Green :1957: L. Harton

References

{{Defunct UK newspapers, state=collapsed Newspapers published in Manchester Publications established in 1884 Publications disestablished in 1960 Defunct Sunday newspapers published in the United Kingdom