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The Leeds Weekly News of July 5 2012 is its last edition. In the paper it states "The paper will no longer be published following a review of free newspaper publishing in Leeds. This change comes as a direct result of tough economic conditions and a natural migration of Leeds-based advertisers towards paid-for newspapers." The Pudsey Times has also ended, though that is not a paper I know.Clearly all a sign of changes at the Yorkshire Post Newspapers that print and publish the Leeds Wekly News and such as the YEP.

Yes, the Pudsey Times this week also has a wraparound for a cheap deal for the Evening Post. We have at least one online project looking to create a local news service for the area. Almost anything would be better.

Leodian wrote: Clearly all a sign of changes at the Yorkshire Post Newspapers that print and publish the Leeds Wekly News and such as the YEP. Making way for the Y.E.P to take it's place as a freebie newspaper perhaps?Let's play 'spot the story' hidden between the adverts then We used to joke at Royal Mail how we picked up the leaflets from the doormat and a newspaper fell out         

Phill_dvsn wrote: Making way for the Y.E.P to take it's place as a freebie newspaper perhaps? I can't see it in all honesty. They don't seem to be interested in the quality of the paper at all, so even if they published a 'commuter edition' given out in town to try and drum up interest, it would be still be the same thin content. At the moment it wouldn't surprise me if Johnston Press are more interested in selling a nice bit of real estate on the edge of the city centre.

Good news for firelighter manufacturers then.JD

The LWN could have ceased to exist a long ago as far as I'm concerned. Last time we received it regularly (although even then it was prone to not being delivered for weeks at a time), was when I was still living at the family home in Seacroft and I moved out of there in 1995.When I lived at Cross Gates it was delivered infrequently and since I moved up to Swarcliffe over a decade ago I can't remember ever getting a copy.If you asked me JP closed down the wrong free paper when they bought the Yorkshire Post - they also published the Leeds Skyrack Express (offices on Austhorpe Road) which was a much better read with some genuine local interest between the adverts.And on a final night, I briefly delivered the LWN as a paperboy in the mid 80's - 362 papers to deliver at the princely sum of 1p a paper on a route that seemed to have an Alsatian in every third garden. Wages were paid into a Halifax Building Society account that they set up. That didn't last long and no wonder why.

One less thing to put straight in the bin