The News Shopper titles are local newspapers published in South East London and North West Kent by Newsquest.
[1] The paper was founded in 1965 by a group of five men: advertising salesman Richard Addison, Gerald McKnight, onetime editor of the Sunday Dispatch; David English, later to become Sir David English, and South African millionaire lawyers Rayne Kruger and Anthony Aaronson.
The paper was founded with one manager, one reporter, one advertising representative, a secretary, a part-time distribution manager, photographer and fashion writer, and 140 boys to deliver the 29,000 copies.
The newspaper office, in Orpington, was above a hairdressers in Chislehurst Road.
The paper was distributed for free, an unusual step at the time.