History of British newspapers to those being employed by News International. Even though the last major British news office, Reuters, left in 2005, the term "Fleet Street" continues to be used as a metonym for the British national press. "The Independent" was first published on 7 October 1986. The paper was created at a time of fundamental change and attracted staff from the two Murdoch broadsheets who had chosen not to move to the new headquarters in Wapping. Launched with the advertising slogan "It is. Are you?", and challenging "The Guardian" for centre-left readers, and "The Times" as a newspaper of record, it reached
The Post (British newspaper) The Post (British newspaper) The Post was a national tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom, owned by Eddy Shah. It ran for only five weeks in November and December 1988. The first edition was issued on Thursday 10 November and cost 20p. Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves, then the hosts of an ITV football series called "Saint and Greavsie", had a column in the paper on Saturdays. "The Post" was produced at Messenger Newspapers, Warrington, UK. With Apple Macintosh IIfx computers and Aldus PageMaker software, later to become Adobe InDesign, giving it a "what you see is what you