[3] The newspaper has a convoluted history which has been well documented during its declining years due to several legal disputes involving ex-staff.
[6] Thirteen days later it was then announced that businessman Peter Masters, who at that time was owner of Truro City F.C.
[7] However, a few short months later, in January 2018, much to the dismay of his staff, Peter Masters suddenly sold the Sunday Independent Limited, which had employed them, to Plymouth born newspaper executive Duncan Williams for an alleged sum of £1.
[9] The transaction has since come under intense scrutiny from journalists of the Sunday Independent Limited,[10] who say that TUPE laws were breached in the process.
In January 2022 it was announced in Press Gazette that these Peter Masters owned variants of the Sunday Independent were all to close indefinitely.