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 and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

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 bought the paper and renamed it the ''Empire'', and shortly after, the ''Empire News''." Along with Hulton's other papers, the ''News'' was acquired by Lord Beaverbrook and then sold to Lord Rothermere, later becoming part of Allied Northern Newspapers and later Kemsley Newspapers. 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'' 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 ''

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'' in 1960.

Editors

:1948: Terence Horsley :1949: George 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