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27-513: The Hinckley Times was founded in January 1889 by Thomas Baxter, the son of John Baxter, who was a newspaper printer and publisher in the town. In 1922, Baxter merged the paper with a rival town publication owned by local printer Arthur Pickering, named The Hinckley Times & Guardian , Bosworth Herald & South Leicestershire Advertiser . Following the acquisition of the paper, it was renamed The Hinckley Times and Guardian , which better reflected

54-538: A compact, tabloid format from a broadsheet format in March 2009. Its supplements include the weekly entertainment section The Guide and monthly Business Review alongside the Property Chronicle . It covers an area extending to Goring-on-Thames to the north, Bucklebury to the west, Mortimer to the south, and Twyford and Winnersh to the east. The paper was owned by Trinity Mirror, now Reach plc , until it

81-477: A company owned by Robert Maxwell , acquired the Daily Mirror from Reed International. The company was relisted as Mirror Group in 1991. In 1991 the company was due to be investigated via an Anton Piller order for alleged theft of software from companies including Adobe Inc. , Autodesk and Microsoft . The action was delayed as it coincided with Maxwell's death, but was recommenced in 1992. Subsequently it

108-460: A former nanny of David and Victoria Beckham. As of September 2014, a further 19 claims were registered at the High Court and another 10 claimants had indicated they would bring proceedings against Trinity Mirror. Other reports claimed that the number of victims could be much higher, with Evan Harris, associate director of the pressure group Hacked Off describing the revelations as: "… just the tip of

135-654: A number of titles from the Guardian Media Group in 2010. In 2013, Trinity Mirror launched the content websites UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d on an experimental basis. UsVsTh3m was a website similar to BuzzFeed focused on quizzes and Flash games, edited by B3ta founder Rob Manuel and running the Tumblr platform. Ampp3d focused on data journalism and used the WordPress platform. Both websites were closed down in 2015. Reading Chronicle The Reading Chronicle

162-493: A portal connecting motorists nationwide with trusted local garages and mechanics. In June 2014, Trinity Mirror transitioned its online bingo software from Dragonfish to Virtue Fusion from Playtech for its group of bingo brands. In November 2015, Trinity Mirror purchased Local World , a major stakeholder in local news titles, from DMGT . Local World had been formed by former Trinity chief exec David Montgomery in 2012 to consolidate all DMGT's local newspaper holdings other than

189-460: A positive influence on their communities. It was honoured for its Help Save Charlie campaign, which raised thousands of pounds towards private treatment for a young boy suffering from a rare brain tumour. In 2014, the Chronicle published a feature and front-page article alleging that hooliganism was a problem at Reading Football Club . The club's chairman Sir John Madejski suspended its links with

216-456: A very big iceberg". On 6 November 2014, Graham Johnson , pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court . On 13 February 2015, Trinity Mirror published a public apology to "all its victims of phone hacking" on page two of the Daily Mirror . It also set aside funds to cover the cost of settling phone hacking compensation payments. The same apology was printed in the following editions of

243-597: 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 , Sunday Mirror , The Sunday People , Daily Express , Sunday Express , Daily Star , Daily Star Sunday as well as the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail and the magazine OK! Since purchasing Local World , it has gained 83 print publications. Reach plc's headquarters are at

270-632: Is a weekly newspaper covering Reading in Berkshire , UK and surrounding areas, which began its life as the Berkshire Chronicle . It is currently edited by Katie French, serving as group editor for its parent company Newsquest Berkshire & Buckinghamshire. The paper is published each Thursday with two editions: the Reading Chronicle and the Woodley and Earley Chronicle . The paper switched to

297-742: Is located at nine press sites throughout the UK, printing and distributing thirty-six major newspapers for the UK, including the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror , the Sunday People , the Daily Record (in Scotland), and other contract titles including titles for the Guardian Media Group . Reach plc also owns a number of local titles in Northern England and in Surrey and Berkshire, after acquiring

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324-597: The Manchester Evening News and Reading Evening Post . In March 2010 Trinity Mirror stated that it would end its bout of staff cuts and newspaper closures. The announcement came as the company reported pre-tax profits of £72.7m for 2009, exceeding analysts expectations. In January 2012 it was announced Trinity Mirror acquired Communicator Corp, a digital communications company specialising in email and mobile communications for £8m. In August 2013, Trinity Mirror announced its partnership with whocanfixmycar.com,

351-1042: The Sunday People and Sunday Mirror . A hearing at the High Court in London heard on 3 March 2015 that one Mirror group journalist had hacked the phones of some 100 celebrities every day and that 109 stories had been published about just seven claimants. On 21 May 2015, damages totalling nearly £1.25m were awarded to eight people as the result of phone hacking by Mirror Group journalists, including actress Sadie Frost (£260,000) and ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne (£188,250). Other damages recipients included soap opera actors Shane Richie (£155,000), Shobna Gulati (£117,500) and Lucy Benjamin (real name Lucy Taggart, £157,250), as well as BBC creative director Alan Yentob (£85,000), TV producer Robert Ashworth (former husband of Coronation Street actress Tracy Shaw , £201,250) and flight attendant Lauren Alcorn (former girlfriend of footballer Rio Ferdinand , £72,500). The Mirror Group said it would consider whether to seek permission to appeal against

378-734: The Competition and Markets Authority launched a preliminary investigation into the deal, requiring Trinity Mirror to keep Express Newspapers as a standalone entity. In July 2020, Reach announced that it was cutting 550 jobs, 12% of its workforce, because of falling income amid reduced demand for advertising in its titles. In January 2011, former MP Paul Marsden announced that he was considering taking legal action against Trinity Mirror, over alleged phone hacking . On 24 September 2014, Trinity Mirror admitted that some of its journalists had been involved in phone hacking. It admitted liability and agreed to pay compensation to four people who had sued for

405-516: The Metro , expanding their holdings while streamlining production, to make the group more saleable. Its 115 titles were formed primarily by those of Harmsworth's historic Northcliffe Newspapers Group , alongside other smaller purchases made by DMGT and Local World subsequently, including the 2007 purchase from Trinity. The purchase increased Trinity Mirror's local circulation by around 50%. The deal valued Local World at around £220 million. In February 2018,

432-718: The One Canada Square in London . It is listed on the London Stock Exchange . The Daily Mirror was launched by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe , "for gentlewomen" in 1903. The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange on 2 December 1953. In 1958 the International Publishing Company (IPC) acquired Mirror Group Newspapers, but IPC was in turn taken over by publishing giant Reed International in 1970. In 1984 Pergamon Holdings ,

459-488: The alleged hacking of voicemails (entertainer Shane Richie , soap actresses Shobna Gulati and Lucy Benjamin and BBC creative director Alan Yentob ). The four also received an apology. Trinity Mirror also announced that it had earlier settled six other phone hacking claims in relation to former England football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson , footballer Garry Flitcroft , actor Christopher Eccleston , showbusiness agent Phil Dale, Richie's wife Christine Roche and Abbie Gibson,

486-505: The company completed the acquisition of the publishing assets of Northern & Shell , including the Daily Express , Sunday Express , Daily Star (collectively the Express & Star Group), and OK! . Following completion, Trinity Mirror announced a plan to rebrand as Reach , subject to investor approval at a meeting scheduled for May 2018. Following completion of the acquisition,

513-526: The company introduced a number of measures to manage discretionary spending more carefully, some of which attracted press attention. In 2007, the company sought to sell a number of titles: the Reading Chronicle was sold to Berkshire Media Group and 25 Trinity Mirror South titles were sold to Northcliffe Media . On 1 October 2007 it was announced that the sale of the Racing Post had been completed:

540-498: The entire sale process had raised £263 million. In September 2008 the company announced that it would be closing the printing plant in Liverpool after 154 years of printing in the city, and transferring the work to Oldham. In February 2010, Trinity Mirror bought the regional M.E.N. Media and S&B Media divisions of Guardian Media Group , containing 22 local titles across Northern England and in Surrey and Berkshire. This included

567-471: The merger. The original name of The Hinckley Times was reinstated in 1962. In June 1980, The Hinckley Times moved out of the Baxter family's Castle Street newspaper offices, printing, and publishing house to a new premises on Brunel Road. On 29 February 1996, The Hinckley Times launched "one of the first ever websites" for a local newspaper. The newspaper stopped trading as an independent publication when it

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594-592: The offices inside The Atkins Building would close and the paper would move to the Leicester Mercury offices in Leicester by the end of the year. The closure of the offices affected two Hinckley journalists working in town, and three Loughborough Echo journalists in Loughborough who also saw their offices close at the same time. Reach plc Reach plc (known as Trinity Mirror between 1999 and 2018)

621-515: The paper and criticised it as "an unwarranted and sensationalised attack which undermines everything our club tries to represent." The piece was also criticised for implying that the Hillsborough disaster was linked to hooliganism. The following week's edition apologised on its front page for both the depiction of Reading FC and the Hillsborough reference. This English newspaper–related article

648-529: The size of the damages, but increased the money allocated to deal with phone hacking claims from £12 million to £28 million. On 15 December 2023, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex was awarded £140,600 by the High Court in damages against Mirror Group Newspapers after 15 out of 33 sample articles in his claim against MGN were ruled as being the product of phone hacking or other unlawful information gathering. Reach plc's printing division, Reach Printing Services,

675-501: Was acquired in 1997 by Coventry Newspapers Limited. Following several takeovers and mergers, the owners became Trinity Mirror, which was renamed Reach plc in 2018. The Hinckley Times stayed in Brunel Road until 2012 when the offices were demolished to make way for a new bus station as a part of The Crescent's shopping and leisure complex. The paper moved to The Atkins Building on 23 November 2012. In October 2019, Reach announced that

702-665: Was purchased by Berkshire Media Group in 2007. The group's parent company Clyde and Forth Press, based in Scotland, went into receivership in 2012 and was taken over by management to become Romanes Media. This venture, named after Clyde and Forth Press' late owner Deirdre Romanes, was acquired by Newsquest in 2015. In November 2021, the Chronicle won the Making A Difference title in the News Media Association's annual Journalism Matters awards, which highlight instances of news outlets having

729-573: Was reported that "At the Mirror Group, for instance, 700 out of the 800 software programs in use were found to be illegal". The company bought Scottish & Universal Newspapers in 1992, and in 1997 it acquired the Birmingham Post and Mail group of newspapers. In 1999 Trinity International Holdings, owners of the Liverpool Echo , merged with Mirror Group to form Trinity Mirror. During 2005

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