The ''Derby Trader'' was the UK's first free newspaper, founded in 1966 by

Lionel Pickering Lionel Victor Pickering (4 December 1931 – 2 September 2006) was an English businessman, best known as the owner of Derby County F.C. between 1991 and 2003. A self-made millionaire, he previously built up a free local newspaper business, ...

and Tony Mather, who became its first editor. It was originally part of Pickering's Trader Group, which was bought by Thomson in 1989. Ownership subsequently passed to Midland Independent Newspapers and then to Trinity Mirror, who announced the closure of the by then loss-making newspaper in 2008.

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