''St Austell Voice'' is a paid-for weekly newspaper that is published each Wednesday. The paper was launched in 2005 and is the sister title to the
Newquay Voice. It covers the south half of the former Borough of
Restormel,
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
,
UK, while the Newquay Voice covers the north. It was launched to meet the need for a locally focussed newspaper and the entire production process with the exception of printing is based in
St Austell
Saint Austell (, ; ) is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, south of Bodmin and west of the border with Devon.
At the 2021 Census in the United Kingdom, census it had a population of 20,900.
History
St Austell was a village centred ...
. The paper currently consists of three full-time journalists, Natasha Swift, Jo Sampson and Gareth Rowett, plus a staff photographer Paul Williams as well as an advertising team. The paper is edited by Phillip Lamphee, formerly of the
Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is part of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the tit ...
group.
In 2006, The
Newquay Voice teamed up with Newquay Based Photography Company "Cornwall-Photos.com", to enable readers to view and purchase photos featured in each week's papers through either the Voice website, or Cornwall-Photos.com. This was expanded to include the
St. Austell Voice in May 2009.
External links
Hold The Front Page website listing
Newspapers published in Cornwall
St Austell
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