The ''Sutton Coldfield News'' was a

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serving the area of

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, West Midlands,

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covering the wards of Sutton Four Oaks,

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, Sutton Vesey, Sutton New Hall,

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and

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. It was owned by the

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'', '' ...

group. The newspaper was established in 1869 and closed in November 2011. The final issue was produced in the week commencing 14 November 2011; at the time of its closure ''Sutton Coldfield News'' was a weekly free newspaper owned by Trinity Mirror as part of Trinity Group Midlands. For some time it kept an editorial and sales office on Birmingham Road, a main thoroughfare just off the main shopping precinct of Sutton Coldfield. ''Sutton Coldfield News'' sometimes printed under the title of ''Sutton Coldfield and Erdington'' News in its early history.

References

*''The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield - A Commemorative History'', Douglas V. Jones, 1994, Westwood Press ()
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