 The newspaper was established in 1869 and closed in November 2011.The final issue was produced in the week commencing 14 November 2011; at the time of its closure Sutton Coldfield News was a weekly free newspaper owned by Trinity Mirror as part of Trinity Group Midlands.For some time it kept an editorial and sales office on Birmingham Road, a main thoroughfare just off the main shopping precinct of Sutton Coldfield.