Keighley News Explained

Keighley News
Type:Weekly newspaper
Format:Compact (Tabloid)
Foundation:1862[1]
Owners:Newsquest[2]
Editor:Nigel Burton[3]
Language:English
Circulation:2,535
Circulation Date:2023
Circulation Ref:[4]
Issn:0961-1924
Headquarters:Keighley, England

The Keighley News is a weekly newspaper based in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. As well as Keighley, its circulation area includes Cross Hills, Cullingworth, Denholme, East Morton, Haworth, Oxenhope, Silsden and Steeton.

The newspaper was a broadsheet until March 2007 when it became a tabloid.[5] The same year it also changed its publication day from Friday to Thursday. It is the sister paper of Telegraph & Argus.

The Keighley News is owned by Newsquest,[2] the second largest publisher of regional newspapers in the United Kingdom. Its circulation figure for the period from January to December 2018, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation, was 5,419.

From September 2007 to July 2012 half of the Keighley News building was leased to Bradford College who operated a community learning centre from the premises. The Keighley News reception desk closed its doors permanently on 29 January 2013 with all reception services and editing now being carried out at the Telegraph & Argus offices in Bradford. The whole building at Keighley has been sold off to a local businessman. The Keighley News staff now work from Newsquest's office in Skipton.

First World War

On 21 November 1914, the Keighley News publicised a letter which was received by William Morley, from his son, the explorer, Herbert Morley. The letter was dated 27 July 1914, (one day before the First World War broke out and about a month before the Occupation of German Samoa operation), therein Herbert tells of six German warships docking in Samoa; "probably… just a bit of a show-off".[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Keighley News . 15 January 2008 . Newsquest Bradford . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080704181558/http://www.newsquestmediapack.co.uk/kn.htm . 4 July 2008 .
  2. Web site: Keighley News. 15 January 2008. Audit Bureau of Circulation.
  3. News: Sharman . David . Keighley News Memory Lane writer Ian Dewhirst dies aged 82 . 20 June 2019 . Hold the Front Page . 28 January 2019.
  4. Web site: Keighley News . . 23 February 2024 . 2 March 2024.
  5. Web site: Compact Keighley News adding new readers . 22 March 2007 . 15 January 2008 . HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070922114149/http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2007/03mar/070322keighley.shtml . 22 September 2007 .
  6. Web site: This week in WW1. 17th November - 23rd November 1914. 12 January 2021. www.wilsdenparishcouncil.gov.uk. Keighley News, 21 November 1914 (Keighley News Archives, accessed via Bradford libraries website).