 The "East London Advertiser" was founded in 1866 and had been owned by Archant since 2003.In June 2008 the "East London Advertiser" scooped two awards at the annual "UK Press Gazette" Regional Press Awards.It was named Weekly Paper of the Year (Circulation less than 20,000) and its deputy editor, Ted Jeory, was named Reporter of the Year (Weeklies), partly for his expose of the First Solution Money Transfer crisis in 2007.