London Daily News
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The London Daily News was a short-lived London newspaper owned by Robert Maxwell. It was published from 24 February to 23 July 1987. It was intended to be a "24-hour" paper challenging the local dominance of the Evening Standard. The Standard’s owners, Associated Newspapers, responded by re-launching the defunct Evening News at a lower price to squeeze the London Daily News out of the market. The Evening News was then re-absorbed by the Standard. The paper was the first home of the Alex cartoon, later published by The Independent and the Daily Telegraph.
The name may also to refer to the Daily News, a London newspaper founded by Charles Dickens in 1846 which merged with the Daily Chronicle to form the News Chronicle in 1930, and was ultimately absorbed by the Daily Mail in 1960.
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