Source/Archive record SCH3712 - Wilmslow Express and Advertiser

The Wilmslow Express is a weekly freesheet tabloid newspaper for the North East Cheshire town of Wilmslow and surrounding villages. It was founded in 1981 as the result of the amalgamation of two earlier newspapers: the County Express and East Cheshire Observer, established in 1955, and the Wilmslow & Alderley and Knutsford Advertiser, founded in 1874 as the Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser. For the first 16 years of its existence it was the Wilmslow Express Advertiser, barring 16 months from August 1991 to December 1992 when it was the Wilmslow & Knutsford Express Advertiser (although it still only covered Wilmslow; the parallel Knutsford Express Advertiser likewise changed its title to become the Knutsford & Wilmslow Express Advertiser). It adopted its present title in 1997.