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The Shuttle

The Shuttle (formerly the Kidderminster Shuttle) is a weekly, mostly freesheet tabloid newspaper delivered to homes in the town of Kidderminster and nearby towns in northern Worcestershire, southern Shropshire and Staffordshire and north-eastern Herefordshire, including Stourport-on-Severn, Cleobury Mortimer, Bridgnorth, Tenbury Wells, Hagley, Kinver, Bewdley and all of the Wyre Forest district.

It was founded in 1870. Over the years it’s absorbed local rivals, including the Kidderminster Times and the Stourport News; these two titles had their own editorial content until 2005 and their own independent front pages until 2006. (Their names continued to appear in the masthead until 2011.) It was itself the subject of a takeover by a local rival, the Stourbridge County Express, in 1931.

It’s published by Newsquest (Midlands South) from editorial offices in Kidderminster.

Although it’s primarily a freesheet, about 10 per cent of the print run is sold each week.

Controversially, both the print edition and the online version carried advertising from the British National Party in the run-up to the 2009 European and local elections.

It comes out on Thursdays. An e-edition (free, but you have to provide your email address) is also available through the website.

  • Address:
  • The Shuttle
    6 Towers Buildings
    Blackwell Street
    KIDDERMINSTER
    DY10 2DY
  • Tel:
  • 01562 633300
  • Fax:
  • 01562 633332