Chronicle Extra is a free newspaper delivered weekly to residents in the Tyne and Wear

Tyne and Wear

Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in north east England around the mouths of the Rivers Tyne and Wear. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972...

 and Northumberland

Northumberland

Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...

 area. The paper includes general news and information about that area within the last week. As well as News

News

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 it also has information

Information

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 on sports and sells advertising Space to anyone needing it.

Employees

The Herald and Post employs people to deliver the papers and anyone over thirteen is allowed to join the waiting list in the hope of getting a paper round to earn money.

Name change

In 2007, the owners of the paper (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...

) decided to rebrand The Herald and Post, as Chronicle Extra to become the sister paper of the Evening Chronicle

Evening Chronicle

The Evening Chronicle is a daily, evening newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne, covering Tyne and Wear, southern Northumberland and northern County Durham. It was founded in 1885 by Joseph Cowen...

.