History
The newspaper was founded as the Burnley Express and East Lancashire Observer by printer George Frankland from Preston as an 8-page penny weekly. It was politically Conservative. In 1880 it merged with the Burnley Advertiser, becoming the Burnley Express and Advertiser, and in 1886 became the Burnley Express and Clitheroe Division Advertiser. In 1933 it became the Express and News after merging with the liberal Burnley News.
1,802 issues of the Burnley Express, from 1877 to 1904, are available to read in digitised form at the British Newspaper Archive.
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