St. Ives Times & Echo

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The St. Ives Times and Echo is an independent, weekly local newspaper based in St Ives, Cornwall United Kingdom. It is published every Friday. It covers St. Ives, Lelant and Hayle. However, it does cover some national news items which have local interest or appeal.

It incorporates the former Hayle Times, and used to publish it as a separate title. However, the content in both newspapers was identical. It was formed when The Western Echo (founded in 1899) and The St. Ives Times (founded in 1910) amalgamated. The company that owns the newspaper also prints the newspaper itself, as well as publishing and printing books of local interest.

It is unusual and unique in published local newspapers for several reasons. It prints on glossy paper, instead of the more normal newsprint, as well as printing photographs (black & white only) to a very high resolution than is normal for a newspaper. It has advertisements on its front page (the Cornish & Devon Post also does this), and it prints in an in-determinant size (bigger than tabloid, smaller than broadsheet, but not quite in Berliner format).

The main office is in the High Street in St. Ives. It has a secondary office in Earley near Reading, Berkshire.