Moray+and+Nairn+Newspaper+Company+Limited

=Moray and Nairn Newspaper Company Limited=

Company Number: SC001426 Date of Incorporation: 19 January 1885 Contact Details: New Century House, Stadium Road, Inverness, IV1 1FG Operating Details: Active (part of Scottish Provincial Press) Other names (if known): Function of Company*: Publishing of Newspapers (2212) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Moray, later Inverness Area of Operation: Publishes the Northern Scot, local newspaper for Morayshire in the highlands of Scotland


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
The Scottish Provincial Press, owners of the company, do not own any historical records of the company. Moray Heritage Centre contains an online index of newspaper articles concerning this company. There is no further listing of any records elsewhere, so I assume that none survive. Related records: Scottish Screen Archive hold a news report film on the centenary of the Northern Scot produced by Grampian TV (ref. N0282)

Company History
The Northern Scot is the biggest-selling weekly newspaper in the North of Scotland and covers the whole of Morayshire, including the city of Elgin, the towns of Forres, Keith and Lossiemouth and the smaller Speyside distillery towns. It’s a broadsheet in format.

It was founded in 1880 as the Moray and Nairn Express and still bears that name in its masthead, although it adopted its present name in 1897. It’s based in Elgin and claims to be the main paper for Moray. It’s published by Scottish Provincial Press Ltd.

It comes out on Fridays. There’s also an associated freesheet, the Midweek Extra, which comes out on Wednesdays []