The Solihull Times and the Solihull News are free newspapers distributed in Solihull

Solihull

Solihull is a town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre...

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The Solihull News was originally founded in 1930 as the Warwickshire News, and currently delivers news and sport from the borough of Solihull and south Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

. The Solihull Times was originally founded as a rival newspaper in the early 1980s (at this point both were "paid for" titles), although both are now owned by Trinity Mirror

Trinity Mirror

Trinity Mirror plc is a large British newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People, and the Scottish Sunday Mail and Daily Record. Its headquarters are at Canary Wharf in...

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Staff on the Solihull News include editor Ross Crawford, contents editor Sheila Grandfield, sports editor/news reporter Sam Greatrex and reporter Lisa Wright.