East Kent Mercury and Dover Mercury
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The East Kent Mercury and Dover Mercury are weekly newspapers serving the district of Dover
in Kent
. The Dover Mercury covers the town of Dover
, and the East Kent Mercury the towns of Deal
and Sandwich
. They are owned by the KM Group
and are published on Thursdays.
The KM Group bought the Mercury in 1980 from Kent County Newspapers.
The East Kent Mercury was originally designed to serve the entire district of Dover, however in 1998 the Dover Mercury broke away from the East Kent Mercury as a paper in is own right. Both papers still feature the same editor, reporters and some of the same articles.
Along with the rest of the KM-owned papers, the Mercury series was given a design overhaul in May 2005.
In February 2009 the Mercury had to change its front page about a murder trial at the last moment following a court order. The KM group was successful in overturning the court order and the story was allowed to be published on the Mercury website.
Dover (district)
Dover is a local government district in Kent, England. Dover is its administrative centre. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the boroughs of Deal, Dover, and Sandwich along with Dover Rural District and most of Eastry Rural District...
in Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
. The Dover Mercury covers the town of Dover
Dover
Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings...
, and the East Kent Mercury the towns of Deal
Deal, Kent
Deal is a town in Kent England. It lies on the English Channel eight miles north-east of Dover and eight miles south of Ramsgate. It is a former fishing, mining and garrison town...
and Sandwich
Sandwich, Kent
Sandwich is a historic town and civil parish on the River Stour in the Non-metropolitan district of Dover, within the ceremonial county of Kent, south-east England. It has a population of 6,800....
. They are owned by the KM Group
KM Group
The KM Group, formerly known as the Kent Messenger Group until 2008, is a multimedia company based in the county of Kent in South East England...
and are published on Thursdays.
History
The East Kent Mercury was founded in 1865.The KM Group bought the Mercury in 1980 from Kent County Newspapers.
The East Kent Mercury was originally designed to serve the entire district of Dover, however in 1998 the Dover Mercury broke away from the East Kent Mercury as a paper in is own right. Both papers still feature the same editor, reporters and some of the same articles.
Along with the rest of the KM-owned papers, the Mercury series was given a design overhaul in May 2005.
In February 2009 the Mercury had to change its front page about a murder trial at the last moment following a court order. The KM group was successful in overturning the court order and the story was allowed to be published on the Mercury website.