The future of the paid-for weekly Darwen newspaper, The Darrener, appears uncertain following the banning of its owner Ted Ward from Darwen FC’s football ground at which the paper’s offices are based.
The paper, which launched last October, claimed to be in expansionary mood recently with a planned increase in pagination and the imminent launch of a website.
Holland
The problems with the paper have arisen as a result of an injunction banning Ward from entering Darwen FC’s ground. Ward had bought the club in January 2007 from previous owner Kevin Henry but Henry claims to have only received a portion of the agreed sale proceeds.
The paper’s phone lines were dead when How-Do attempted to call the editor Peter Holland for clarification.
After the hearing in Birmingham last week, Ward told bystanders that as far as he was concerned it was “only the end of round one.”
The weekly paper cost 65p and Holland told How-Do that the title was selling almost 3,000 copies a week with readership of over 7,000. His ambition he said is to see paid-for sales at 7,000 within 12 months.
In addition to former BBC reporter Holland, there are two full time journalists, one graphic designer, two part time production staff and the paper’s ad sales director.
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