1980's General Knowledge

[Yarmite]

Hello, I have one more to do in this quiz. I have Googled & Gooled and I can't find an answer.
Maybe someone can help me?
1. Which tabloid finally folded in 1984?
I presume it is a newspaper, although it does't actually say so!
The only thing I can find for 1984 is that Robert Maxwell bought the Mirror Group, maybe this had another name before? I don't know!
Thanx in advance for any help.

[Vicasso]

'Today'

I still have a copy of the final edition :-)

[grasscarp]

If you have the final copy vicasso I wont argue with you but google says it closed in 1995. The Hong Kong Star which was their first tabloid closed in 1994.

[mazie]

according to this link it can't be today

http://www.nisyndication.com/today/intro.html

[Vicasso]

Apologies, I've just been and dug out that copy......you're right and I'm wrong

[mazie]

Hi Yarmite, I've been through the newspaper section on the British library site below and cant find anything about a tabloid folding in 1984. Do you think the clue could be linked to a newspaper in George Orwell's 1984? long shot but its all I can come up with.

http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit20th.html

[squarebear]

Unless it refers to a newspaper that was once a broadsheet becoming tabloid size?

[pusspuss]

could it be a broadsheet changing to a tabloid

[Yarmite]

All your answers have been received with thanx.
mazie I don't know whether it could be linked to george Orwell's "1984" as I don't know much about the book!
squarebear and pusspuss, I don't know of any broadsheet becoming tabloid size! Do you know of any?

[squarebear]

Yes The Times did but I don't think it was in 1984.

[mazie]

found this

The Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle ceased publication in December 1984

link look at page 18

http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_p ub/reports/1985/fulltext/190c03.pdf

[mazie]

meant to say that's all i couold find on it, so don't really know if it was a tabloid or not. Sorry I cant be of more help Yarmite. Good luck with it

[Yarmite]

Thanks very much.

[Minoru]

The London Evening News ceased publication in October 1980 leaving the Evening Standard as the only evening newspaper in London

[grasscarp]

Could it be the Ponteland Observer which in 1984 went from being a tabloid to a broadsheet, so would be folded up.....