Newspapers from the St. Helens, Warrington & Wigan area.
This area of South West Lancashire has over 750,000 inhabitants but no local newspaper coverage in the archive. The Manchester & Liverpool newspapers are great for the regional picture but poor on local stories.


We’re reviewing this now: as you say, Lancashire has a significant population density.
20 comments
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Leigh Abbott commented
Are we still reviewing this after six whole years? Any movement on this at all?
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Anonymous commented
The st helens reporter and star would be much appreciated. any prospect of one of them being digitised soon? thank you.
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Anonymous commented
Will gladly subscribe when you finally show the st helens reporter and/or the st helens star,
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Anonymous commented
Would really appreciate seeing the St Helen's Reporter and Star from the beginning on this site. I would like to research both 19th century and late 20th century news.
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Stephen commented
Please include the St Helens Reporter and St Helens Star newspapers. The St Helens local history library has these on microfilm so should be easy to digitise.
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Anonymous commented
Some of these titles have been digitised and are now available via the pay site http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ but not via the 'Gale News Vault British Library Newspapers I-V' to which my university library subscribes. I'm not sure of the rationale here.
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Anonymous commented
I agree Newton le Willows historic town, St.Helens and Warrington. Microfiche already available at libraries. No more subscriptions till done!
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Anonymous commented
St Helens Newspaper would be great 1900-1914
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Neil Ormston commented
Any update on this? The comment that this was being looked at is from Jun 2014! The Warrington Guardian now has 60+ votes (please add your vote to it if you see this!), and would be my choice here.
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Anonymous commented
I would also like to see archive newspaper material from the St Helens, Prescot, Eccleston and Rainford areas for around 1860-1960 at least.
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Susan Wylie commented
Warrington in particular has a long and significant industrial and commercial history. Warrington newspapers also covered events over the border into Cheshire.
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alanitscoldoutside commented
No way am I subscribing when there are NO papers that at least include some Wigan info.
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alanitscoldoutside commented
yeh bawt time
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fredy commented
cant undestand why not on already, we can read up here you know, that's why they sold papers here!!!
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Eileen commented
The Wigan Observer would be top of my list.
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jimlad68 commented
About time we got something from this area, been waiting ages. for us the Wigan Observer Is there a possible "hit list" with an idea of when they will be available, why pay a sucscription when we have no idea when they will be available?
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jimlad68 commented
yes plaese
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Angela Bailey commented
I agree with this - and put in a vote for the Warrington Guardian
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Anonymous commented
I would strongly support the idea of adding one or more newspapers from central south Lancashire. Warrington, St Helen's and the otheer towns in this area have a very different social and economic structure from the Liverpool and Manchester conurbations.
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Stephen commented
I agree. There are plenty of St.Helens newspapers alone - The St.Helens Reporter, St.Helens Newspaper, St.Helens Intelligencer, St.Helens Lantern, St.Helens Leader, St.Helens Weekly News, St.Helens Star, Prescot Reporter etc.