Sheffield Star

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The Star, often known as the Sheffield Star is a newspaper of the city Sheffield, England. It is published Monday to Saturday each week.

The Star (daily newspaper) and Sheffield Telegraph (weekly newspaper) are published by Sheffield Newspapers Ltd (owned by Johnston Press plc) based at York Street in Sheffield's City Centre.

The Star is marketed in South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire and reaches more than 165,936 readers (01/11/2005 JICREG) through its main editions and district editions for Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley.

According to the Newspapers Catalogue of the British Library, the newspaper which subsequently became The Star began as the Sheffield Evening Telegraph, the first edition of which was published on 7 June 1887. From June 1888 to December 1897 it was known as the Evening Telegraph and Star and Sheffield Daily Times, then from 1898 to October 1937 as the Yorkshire Telegraph and Star. From 1937 to November 1938 it became the Telegraph & Star, and finally, from 14 November 1938 until the present, The Star.