Chester Chronicle
Encyclopedia
The Chester Chronicle is a UK local weekly newspaper for the Chester
and Cheshire
area, first established in the 18th century. It is one of the UK's best-selling newspapers, published every Thursday.
In June 2006, the Wirral edition was discontinued. The following month, the Flintshire edition was created by merging the Deeside, Mold & Buckley and Flint & Holywell editions. While the Flintshire Chronicle is considered part of the Chester Chronicle series for purposes of advertising, sales and promotions, their editorial content is entirely separate. Since June 2006, the City edition no longer carries the word 'City' on the masthead.
The newspaper was traditionally printed as a broadsheet. However, recently it has switched to a tabloid format in line with other newspapers.
The newspaper is owned by Trinity Mirror
. It has a free sister publication, Midweek Chronicle.
into removing the site from its database.
Chester
Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the...
and Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
area, first established in the 18th century. It is one of the UK's best-selling newspapers, published every Thursday.
Structure
It has a number of different editions:- Chester City
- Chester Country
- Frodsham & Helsby
- Flintshire
In June 2006, the Wirral edition was discontinued. The following month, the Flintshire edition was created by merging the Deeside, Mold & Buckley and Flint & Holywell editions. While the Flintshire Chronicle is considered part of the Chester Chronicle series for purposes of advertising, sales and promotions, their editorial content is entirely separate. Since June 2006, the City edition no longer carries the word 'City' on the masthead.
The newspaper was traditionally printed as a broadsheet. However, recently it has switched to a tabloid format in line with other newspapers.
The newspaper is owned by Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror plc is a large British newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the national Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People, and the Scottish Sunday Mail and Daily Record. Its headquarters are at Canary Wharf in...
. It has a free sister publication, Midweek Chronicle.
Miscellaneous
In February 2003, the Chester Chronicle led a campaign against a website that hosted the ribald joke article Chester's guide to: The controversy, which was unwittingly discovered by a would-be visitor to the city. Many readers and politicians followed the protest and pushed the search engine GoogleGoogle
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
into removing the site from its database.