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The Metro concept comes from Sweden.

Metro International, a different company, launched in the UK in 1999 and in Newcastle upon Tyne was distributed side by side with the Associated Newspapers ' version on the Tyne and Wear Metro system.

After battling alongside the Associated Newspapers ' version with the same name, it changed its name to Morning News.

It was short-lived, however, and Morning News was discontinued shortly afterwards ( see Metro International ).

They have had plans to launch a rivalling free evening newspaper in London.

Similarly, Rupert Murdoch is said to have regretted missing the opportunity of launching his own London paper.

However, News International, a UK subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation, launched a London-based newspaper in 2006 called thelondonpaper.

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