A free weekly paper operating in a Yorkshire seaside town will cease publication at the start of next month, regional publisher Johnston Press has announced.
The Bridlington Gazette and Herald will be closed and become part of sister paid-for title the Bridlington Free Press.
The move was announced in a notice published in the Free Press which said the Gazette and Herald would publish its last edition on 1 February.
It said the change meant staff would now be able to focus on improving the paid-for title.
The notice said: “The change means we can put greater effort into your main newspaper, the Free Press. This will provide a better package for all your commercial needs, and all your contacts remain the same.”
The move comes after Johnston Press confirmed earlier this month that two free titles on the South Coast, the Eastbourne Advertiser and Worthing Guardian had been mothballed pending an upturn in economic fortunes.
Johnston Press has confirmed the closure of the Gazette and Herald but declined to comment further.
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this might have been a good one but a lot of frees are a disgrace to journalism and well got rid of. Put together by one man and a dog or in some cases it looks like just the dog. Save the paid-fors before it’s too late.
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exhealthwriter has finger on pulse. Desperately understaffed, full of crap, and a waste of newsprint is the norm for free papers. You don’t get anything free, or as the illiterates in our business keep writing “for free”.
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paid a pittance. for free is used widely by national media
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So? You probably mean the gabblers on radio and tv who can’t string a sentence of coherent English together so resort to crap like ongoing, upcoming, for free etc or public school stuff like thus far: most of it is American import trash language. I am off to fill the freebie (you get it for free) with great material.
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@paidapittance: The problem with people like you, is that you fail to realise language is a developing entity, ever evolving, adapting and changing. Using the expression “for free” is perfectly acceptable in 2011 so why don’t you stop being such a dinosa
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@paidapittance – One man’s ‘great content’ is another man’s load of old crap. If you really do you have great content in your free I’ll eat my hat.
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