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Seven Years of Byline Times
Stephen Colegrave and Peter Jukes took over Byline.com ten years ago, and three years later, with Hardeep Matharu, launched a new newspaper called Byline Times on 31 March 2019.
Seven years on, we print over 30,000 copies a month, have millions of online readers, and compete with historic titles like the New Statesman (100 years old) and The Spectator (250 years old) in copies sold on the newsstands per issue.
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→ Nowhere else will you find in-depth investigations of the links between Nigel Farage, Russia and his top aide Nathan Gill, or his relationship with Steve Bannon, as revealed in the Epstein Files
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