Another free paper goes to the wall

Johnston Press is closing the Scarborough Trader, a free weekly that has been published continuously for 30 years. Its final issue will be distributed on 8 September, and its closure is the result of what a spokesperson called the "tough trading environment". The publisher will concentrate instead on producing its paid-for title, the Scarborough Evening News, which - with a sale of just over 11,000 copies a day - is one of Britain lowest circulation dailies. Free papers are particularly vulnerable in the current climate. Northcliffe closed the Nottingham Recorder , one of the biggest frees in the country, in June. Trinity Mirror is suspending publication of six weeklies in Scotland and is transforming another free in north Wales into a paid-for . Source: HoldTheFrontPage