Staines Informer

The "Staines Informer" is a weekly free newspaper distributed in the area in and around Staines. It is now owned by the Trinity Mirror group through their North Surrey and London Newspapers division.

The Staines Informer began in 1974. Several other 'freesheets' were already being circulated within this lucrative advertising area, but these usually lacked any editorial substance and were very much of the "read it and chuck it" variety. "The Informer" offered a new style of freesheet which also soon challenged the long established local "paid for" weekly press. The new entrant's mix of human interest stories, entertainment reviews, lifestyle features and informative advertorial soon garnered it a lot of local respect. It became a newspaper which people retained for the whole week and consulted when needing local information or services.

The main editorial areas covered by The Staines Informer today are the Surrey boroughs of Spelthorne, Runnymede and Elmbridge.

Trinity Mirror also publishes a paid-for title "The Feltham, Bedfont & Hanworth Chronicle", as part of the Middlesex Chronicle series. There is also a dedicated website, www.hounslowchronicle.co.uk, which has sections for news from Feltham.

The Staines Informer is distributed every Thursday and is based at offices in Eastworth Road,Chertsey, also the base for its sister papers the Staines and Egham News and Surrey Herald. After the initial success of The Staines Informer, the original publisher established similar newspapers under this banner throughout South West and West London, each of which has garnered a strong readership in their respective areas. They include the Richmond Informer and Kingston Informer. kali maa shaktee deh