Tindle Newspapers Group, which owns more than 200 local titles in the UK, launched on Friday three weeklies despite the economic downturn that continues to affect the industry, Press Gazette reported.

The Barnet & Potters Bar Press, the Hendon & Finchley Press and the Edgware and Mill Hill Press will be distributed door to door to 90,000 homes in the North London, the company announced in a press release. The weeklies have ultra local news of areas already broadly covered by The Press, one of Tindle's publications.

Sir Ray Tindle, founder of the Tindle Newspapers Group, during the launch of a press facility. Photo source: NEWBURY Weekly News Printers Ltd

"It gives us the chance to get closer to the readers and advertisers in the communities we serve," said Alison Cruse, publishing director of North London & Herts Newspapers.

In March, Tindle Newspapers launched other four local titles in Enfield and Barnet as part of an overall strategy to increase the number of community newspapers in England and Well, the Press Gazette noted.