Birmingham Post

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type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1857
price = £0.70
owners = Trinity Mirror
headquarters = Birmingham, England
political = Free market
editor = Marc Reeves
circulation = 12,550 (Jan-Jun 2006) [ [http://abcpdfcerts.abc.org.uk/pdf/certificates/13730178.pdf Birmingham Post (Mon-Sat) Standard Certificate of Circulation, 02-Jan-2006 to 02-Jul-2006] Audit Bureau of Circulations]
website = [http://www.birminghampost.net http://www.birminghampost.net] The "Birmingham Post" newspaper was originally published under the name "Daily Post" in Birmingham, England in 1857 by John Frederick Feeney. It is the largest selling broadsheet in the West Midlands region, though it faces little if any competition in this category. The paper stopped issuing advertisements on its front page in 1946 and started replaced it with front page news. [" [http://century.guardian.co.uk/1950-1959/Story/0,,105159,00.html Manchester Guardian changes] " - The Guardian (republished by Guardian Unlimited Archives), September 27, 1952 (Accessed 24 October, 2007)]

The 16-storey Post and Mail office tower block, designed by John Madin, was opened in 1965 to accommodate the "Post" and "Evening Mail" newspapers, but the main tower was demolished in 2006. The original design saw the concrete building surrounded by trees and grass but this was never implemented. The Post and its sister titles are due to relocate to the restored Fort Dunlop building, three miles out of the city centre, in August 2008.

After changing hands many times, the newspaper is now part of the Trinity Mirror group.

In February 2008 the newspaper re-launched its website as birminghampost.net.

References

External links

* [http://birminghampost.net/ Birmingham Post website]
* [http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/aboutus/ourpapers/birminghampost/ "The Birmingham Post": An Historical Perspective]