History and Ownership
The paper began in 1948 as localised edition of the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, founded in Kettering in 1897, with four change pages. From 1961 it was published in Peterborough from the Advertiser's offices in Cumbergate. A district edition was published between 1966 and 1967, entitled Stamford Evening Telegraph from 1987 to 1988, continuing as a general county edition with seven change pages.
The East Midland Allied Press was formed in 1947 by merger of the Northamptonshire Printing and Publishing Co., the Peterborough Advertiser Co., the West Norfolk and King's Lynn Newspaper Co. and commercial printing sections at Rushden, King's Lynn and Bury St. Edmunds. It was overseen by Pat Winfrey, the son of Sir Richard Winfrey, who had bought the Spalding Guardian in 1887. In 1996, Emap, as it had become known, divested 69 newspapers, including the Peterborough Evening Telegraph Co.
The Peterborough Telegraph is now owned by East Midlands Newspapers Ltd., part of Johnston Press Plc. East Midlands Newspapers also publishes 11 other titles including the Stamford Mercury and Grantham Journal.
In 2012, the daily paper was scrapped in favour of a weekly paper, being published and distributed on a thursday.
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