Saiqa Chaudhari is the audience and content editor for the website, while Roger Airey is in charge of print production.

The first edition of The Bolton Evening News was founded by the Tillotson family and was published on Tuesday 19 March 1867 – with the front page entirely devoted to adverts.

But the origins of the paper stretch way back to 1834 when John Tillotson was apprenticed to printer Robert Marsden Holden, who had premises in Mealhouse Lane, Bolton.

[citation needed] Severe difficulties dogged WF Tillotson's early enterprise but he persevered and the Evening News really took off under the first editor William Brimelow.

Brimelow is said to have had a habit of throwing a book on the ground just as potential applicants entered the office to see what their reaction was.

[7] In addition to the newspaper the Tillotson family also developed their general printing and carton making businesses.

St Regis sold the group to Reed International in 1982 and the Bolton Evening News became the largest of its titles.

On 11 June 2009 the sub-editors in the editorial department were moved to Blackburn, working from the offices of the Lancashire Telegraph.

The Bury Times is now largely produced in Bolton and Blackburn and in April 2013, it was revamped with more pages and a £1 price point.