News on Sunday

The News on Sunday was a left-wing British tabloid newspaper. It was launched in April 1987. Publication ceased seven months later, in November 1987. The founders of the paper were former members of the left-wing group Big Flame. They decided that a left-wing mass-circulation tabloid Sunday newspaper was possible and endeavoured to start one. The idea of the paper was originally thought up by Benjamin Lowe. The leaders were John Pilger as editor-... More

First issue date:

  • Apr 1987

Final issue date:

  • Nov 1987

Periodicals

Owner

Owen Oyston

Owen John Oyston (born in County Durham in January 1934) is a controversial self-made multimillionaire English businessman who is the majority owner of Blackpool F.C.. He was convicted of rape in 1996 and served three years of a six-year sentence in prison. At the age of two, Oyston's family moved...

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News on Sunday Headquarters

Whitworth Street
Manchester England

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