Newspaper's last edition

A weekly newspaper serving Welshpool has ceased publication after seven years in print.

Midland News Association has confirmed the last edition of the Oswestry & Border Chronicle was published last week.

The Chronicle was launched as a free title in 2011 (first edition pictured) to serve Welshpool, Oswestry and surrounding villages. Staff have been redeployed in other roles across the company, which also publishes the daily Shropshire Star and Express & Star as well as several other weekly titles.

At its launch in 2011, the Chronicle had a free distribution of 15,000.

MNA Managing director Graeme Clifford said: “The decision to close the title was taken after a review of the MNA’s weekly portfolio.

“We are not looking to make redundancies and hope to redeploy the staff in other roles. We are grateful to colleagues for all their efforts since we launched the Chronicle in 2011.

“We would also like to thank our readers and advertisers for their support.

“MNA will continue to serve Oswestry and the surrounding area through our daily newspaper the Shropshire Star as well as Shropshirestar.com.”