News UK 16 September 2014 by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact daily newspaper "The Times" and the broadsheet "The Sunday Times". Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation purchased "The Times" from the Astor family and merged it with "The Sunday Times", which it had owned since 1959. The company was purchased by Murdoch's News International in February 1981. The acquisition followed an intense 21 days of negotiations with the print unions conducted by John Collier and Bill O'Neill. "The Times Literary Supplement", "Times Educational Supplement" and "Times Higher Education Supplement" were
The Student (newspaper) press, full colour printing was available and the newspaper was fully produced on computers not old fashioned light boxes. The initial circulation after the relaunch was around 5,000 copies distributed through cardboard stands around the various university campuses. To ease the transition the newspaper was published on a fortnightly basis for a year. After a successful advertising funded first year the newspaper returned to being published weekly and within two years the circulation crept up to over 12,000 copies a week aided by initiatives such as a second edition catering to the other universities within Edinburgh and a seven-day TV