''The Shuttle'', formerly known as the ''Kidderminster Shuttle'', is a free weekly

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distributed to households in the

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area of Worcestershire,

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, on a Thursday. In the

Stourport Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and downstream on the River Severn from Bewdley. At the 2011 c ...

area it was known as the ''Stourport News'', and there was also a paid-for edition, the ''Kidderminster Times''; all three papers have had identical editorial content since 2005 although each had its own

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front page until April 2006. Since then all three papers have been renamed as ''The Shuttle'' incorporating the ''Kidderminster Shuttle'', the ''Kidderminster Times'' and the ''Stourport News''. The local office in

was closed at the same time. The paper remains a local institution in the

Kidderminster Kidderminster is a large market and historic minster town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester. Located north of the River Stour and east of the River Severn, in the 2011 census, it h ...

area, notably with its in-depth coverage of local politics and Kidderminster Harriers F.C. The ''Shuttle'' was first published in the 19th century, and takes its name from the

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industry for which Kidderminster is famous. The current editor of the ''Shuttle'' is Stephanie Preece. The newspaper is owned by

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which was acquired by the

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s on both its online and print editions from the

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, resulting in a letter of complaint by a member of the

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Newsquest Newsquest Media Group Ltd. is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom. It is owned by the American mass media holding company Gannett. It has 205 brands across the UK, publishing online and in print ...

Newspaper titles with online presence around the

area
Bromsgrove Advertiser
The newspaper main website
Dudley News
The newspaper main website
Halesowen News
The newspaper main website
StourbidgeNews
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