The ''Liverpool Post'' was a newspaper published by

Trinity Mirror Reach plc (known as Trinity Mirror between 1999 and 2018) is a British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher. It is one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, publishing 240 regional papers in addition to the national ''Daily Mirror'', '' ...

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

, Merseyside, England. The newspaper and its website ceased publication on 19 December 2013. Until 13 January 2012 it was a daily morning newspaper, with the title ''The Liverpool Daily Post''. It retained the name ''Liverpool Daily Post'' for its website, which continued to offer a daily service of news, business and sport to the people of Merseyside until the closure of the publication. The ''Liverpool Daily Post'' split from its sister North Wales title, '' The Daily Post'', which still publishes six days a week, in 2003. The newspaper has been published since 1855. Historically the newspaper was published by the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd. The ''Liverpool Daily Post'' was first published in 1855 by Michael James Whitty. Whitty, a former Chief Constable for Liverpool, had campaigned for the abolition of the Stamp Act under which newspapers were taxed. When the abolition took place, Whitty began publishing the ''Daily Post'' at one penny per copy, undercutting the incumbent best-selling Liverpudlian newspaper, the '' Liverpool Mercury''. In 1904 the ''Liverpool Daily Post'' merged with the ''Liverpool Mercury'' but its title was retained. The limited company expanded internationally and in 1985 was restructured as Trinity Holdings. The two original newspapers had just previously been re-launched in tabloid format. In 1999 Trinity merged with Mirror Group Newspapers to become

, the largest stable of newspapers in the UK. On 31 January 2009, the ''Daily Post'' published its final Saturday edition, and from then only published Monday-Friday. The ''Daily Post's'' final appearance was on 13 January 2012, after which it became a weekly paper simply known as ''The Liverpool Post'' published every Thursday. In the period December 2010 – June 2011, the ''Liverpool Daily Post'' had an average daily circulation of 8,217 while the ''North Wales Daily Post'' edition had an average daily circulation of 31,802, bringing the total to just over 40,000. On 10 December 2013, the ''Liverpool Post'' announced it was to cease publishing after more than 158 years. The final edition was printed on 19 December 2013. Its sister publication, the ''

Liverpool Echo The ''Liverpool Echo'' is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales – a subsidiary company of Reach plc and is based in St. Paul's Square, Liverpool, England. It is published Monday through Sunday, and is Liverpool's da ...

'', is now the sole daily newspaper in Liverpool.

Former journalists

* Jane Costello, author of popular novels, who under her real name Jane Wolstenholme, was editor until 2006. * David Charters, who was a reporter and columnist for the Daily Post and Echo for more than 50 years

References

External links

* (Archived from 2012)
''Daily Post'' (North Wales edition)icLiverpool news homepage, carries stories from the ''Daily Post'' and ''Echo''
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