Talk:The Shuttle

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I feel that a seperate page is required with the history of the Stourport News from its foundation up to its take-over by the Kidderminster Shuttle. DonBarton 00:27, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I have written the history of the Kidderminster Shuttle in my own sandbox waiting for publication. I only have the history from it inception (1870) and the end of the Second World War. If anyone has information from 1945 to the present day then please have a look at my sandbox. See User:Tavis_Pitt/shuttle. Tavis Pitt

I've put up my history (re. above), it's better out in the open than lying idle in a sandbox.

[edit] Page move?

With the change of name of the paper, shouldn't the article now be at The Shuttle? There's nothing there at present, so it shouldn't cause any problems. Loganberry (Talk) 15:11, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree --Tavis Pitt 07:48, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Move made. Loganberry (Talk) 23:21, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Front page image

I think we can reasonably claim fair use for this, but as it stands the image is listed as public domain, which seems impossible. I've asked the uploader what they mean by "newsquest employee. Image for use with information", but have so far had no response. Loganberry (Talk) 23:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

And now it's been deleted, which is what tends to happen when there's no proper explanation. I'd welcome anyone adding a new image, but they must include a full fair use rationale on the image page: that's required, not optional. Loganberry (Talk) 15:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kidderminster Times and Stourport News

The information in this article about the Kidderminster Times is certainly misleading and may be incorrect. The statement "Soon after the demise of the Sun the J. G. Dalton founded the Kidderminster Times, alas this newspaper was also short-lived and became absorbed in to the Shuttle." May be true but the Kiddermister times existed in the 7o's.

I can't cite any sources but my recollection is:- The Kidderminster Times and the Kidderminster Shuttle were separate newspapers in competition with each other.

The Shuttle was owned (as correctly recorded by the County Express group) and was offset printed. It had a green masthead title and a modern typeface.

The Times was a paper in the Berrows group, it seemed to be the more succesful newspaper (more advertising, more pages), presumably circulation statistics would clarify this. The Stourport News was an edition of the Kidderminster times with at least a different wrapper (pages 1 & 2 and the corresponding endpages). If I recall correctly it was always titled "The Kidderminster Times and Stouport News" but the separate editions had large type only for the primary title.

When Berrows were taken over by Reed (1982 see the Berrows Worcester Journal Website link from the appropriate page on Wikipedia) it the two papers were merged as they were now owned by the same organisation.

I think this was around the time free papers had started so a free Times was put out to compete with the others then in circulation (Kiddermister Chronicle) and Shuttle was used for the paid paper ( I was away at university). It may have been at this time that tabloid editions appeared I cannot remember if the Shuttle was always a broadsheet or if it became smaller before the merger.

The type face and layout of the current paper reminds me more of the Times and the other Berrows group papers than the Shuttle --Olavuafa 19:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)