Northumberland Gazette
The
Northumberland Gazette is a weekly
newspaper published in
Alnwick,
Northumberland,
England.
A
broadsheet, it was established in
1854 as the
Alnwick Mercury, but adopted the title
Alnwick and County Gazette in
1883 after incorporating that newspaper, founded earlier in 1883; it continued the numbering of the
Mercury. The title changed to the
Northumberland and Alnwick Gazette in
1943, and to the
Northumberland Gazette in
1947. For most of its history it has been in the same ownership as the South Shields daily evening newspaper, the
Shields Gazette.
For several years the paper was published in several editions covering different districts in east Northumberland, including one for
Berwick upon Tweed from no later than
1972 until
1984 or after, one for
Morpeth from at least
1946 until
1992, from
1972 under the masthead
Morpeth Gazette, for
Rothbury and
Wooler from about
1954 to
1957, a Wooler edition until
1972 or after, and a
Ponteland edition from
1974 to
1992, in latter years under the masthead
Ponteland Gazette. This pattern ended in 1992 when the Gazette's publisher, Northeast Press (then part of Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers) bought the
Alnwick Advertiser (established in 1979) and the
Morpeth Herald from the Tweeddale Press Group. The
Advertiser was incorporated in the
Gazette and the Morpeth and Ponteland editions of the
Gazette ended. The newspaper now serves Alnwick,
Amble,
Seahouses, Rothbury, Wooler and outlying districts.
The
Gazette typically covers local news, sport, leisure and
farming issues, also prints opinion pieces, reader letters, classified advertisements, and contains a
property and
real estate pull-out section. Its publisher, Northeast Press, is a division of
Johnston Press plc.
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