Northumberland Gazette

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Northumberland Gazette
Type	Weekly Newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner
Publisher	Northeast Press Ltd
Founded	1854
Price	£0.50
Headquarters	32 Bondgate Without, Alnwick
Circulation	Alnwick, Amble, Seahouses, Rothbury, Wooler and district
ISSN	1354-9189

Website: www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk

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.