Chester Chronicle

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The Chester Chronicle is a UK local weekly newspaper for the Chester and Cheshire area, first established in the 18^th century. It is one of the UK's best-selling newspapers, published every Friday.

[edit] 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. It has a free sister publication, Midweek Chronicle.

[edit] Miscellaneous

In February 2003, the Chester Chronicle led a campaign against a website that hosted the ribald joke article Chester's guide to: Picking up little girls, which was unwittingly discovered by a would-be visitor to the city. Many readers and politicians followed the protest and pushed the search engine Google into removing the site from its database.