Morton Newspapers/Score Press
Morton Newspapers was set up by John Morton in 1936, when he purchased the Lurgan Mail title. It slowly expanded over the next eight decades purchasing the Portadown Times in 1949, the Londonderry Sentinel in 1953 and the Ballymena Times in 1986 amongst others. It also launched several newspapers including the Ulster Star in 1957 and FarmWeek in 1959.
In December 1995, the sale of the company by the Morton family to Scottish Radio Holding's was completed for £11.2m, and became part of Score Press. Ten years later in 2005, Scottish Radio Holding's 45 titles (sixteen in Scotland, twenty-four in Northern Ireland and five in the Republic of Ireland), including Morton Newspapers, were bought by Johnston Press for £155m and became known as Johnston Publishing (NI). Mortons Newspapers is now a subsidiary of Johnston Publishing (NI), and is used to differentiate between the local newspapers (Mortons) and the daily title, the News Letter
The cragavon echo has been pulled - stopped printing last week fist week June 2010
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