A newspaper made its debut in Great Britain.

It is Britain’s first new serious newspaper this century. The Independent rolled off the presses in four different parts of the country, with its owners hoping to cash in on new financial and technological freedom in the newspaper industry. About 650,000 copies of paper were printed Tuesday, and it must sell 375,000 copies a day to stay afloat and must attract large numbers of readers from well-established giants--the Times, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. Dummy editions the Independent produced over the past month revealed an earnest, well laid-out paper, carefully targeted at the 20- to 45-year-old professional.