The Empire News was a Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom.
Owned by H. S. Jennings, the Umpire was subtitled "A Sporting, Athletic, Theatrical and General Newspaper", and focused on sports and theatre news.
[1] In 1894, it absorbed the former daily newspaper, the Manchester Examiner and Times.
[2][3] Along with Hulton's other papers, the News was acquired by Lord Beaverbrook and then sold to Lord Rothermere, later becoming part of Allied Northern Newspapers and later Kemsley Newspapers.
[2] Roy Thomson bought the paper in 1959, but he merged it into the News of the World in 1960.