Shields Gazette
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The Shields Gazette, established in 1849, is a daily evening newspaper. It is the oldest provincial evening newspaper in the United Kingdom.[1]
It was originally established as a weekly paper,the North and South Shields Gazette, becoming a daily evening paper on the repeal of Stamp Duty in 1855. Later it became the Shields Gazette and Shipping Telegraph.
It is now part of North East Press, a division of Johnston Press, and the paper has been printed on the presses of the Sunderland Echo in Pennywell, Sunderland, since 1992.
The paper actually covers the whole of South Tyneside, with a separate edition for Jarrow and Hebburn. Even so, it is unusual for an area of this size to have its own evening paper. It is well supported by local people, however, with a readership of around 70,000-plus.
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- ^ History of North East Press. Shields Gazette. Johnston Press. Retrieved on 2007-05-20. “The Gazette is the UK's oldest provincial evening newspaper and was first published in 1849.”
