Shrewsbury Chronicle
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| Type | Weekly regional newspaper |
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| Owner(s) | Midland News Association |
| Editor | Kim Bennett |
| Founded | 23 November 1772 |
| Headquarters | 7 Bellstone, Shrewsbury, SY1 1HU |
| Circulation | 19,000 |
| Website | shrewsburychronicle.com |
The Shrewsbury Chronicle is a local news newspaper in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It is one of the oldest weekly newspapers in the United Kingdom, publishing its first edition in 1772.
It is printed on Wednesday evening and is on sale or distributed on Thursday. It covers Shrewsbury and the surrounding area, including Church Stretton.
The paper averages 96 pages a week including five pages of news, eight pages of sport, two pages of entertainment, one page of letters and seven pages of classifieds advertisements. It also features a 48-page property supplement. The associated website is shrewsburychronicle.com.
The editor of the Shrewsbury Chronicle is Kim Bennett, who took over from John Butterworth in 2009. The newspaper is published by the independently owned Midland News Association.
Founded by Thomas Wood, a drapery salesman-turned-printer who had been a partner in the Birmingham Chronicle newspaper, the Shrewsbury Chronicle was first published on Monday 23 November 1772 - more than 20 years before The Times and before the county was mapped for the first time. It was then titled The Shrewsbury Chronicle, or Wood's British Commercial Pamphlet and eight pages long. Following Wood's death in 1801, his widow Mary (nee Horlick) carried on the paper until her own death in 1808, making her "one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of women newspaper proprietors".
In the early days the paper covered national, international and local news covering such major news stories as the American War of Independence, the death of Nelson and the Crimean War. It carried advertisements alone on its front page until in February 1953 when major news stories began being carried on it.
The newspaper, which began when George III was on the throne, has been publishing during the reigns of nine monarchs. It even came out as a daily paper for just under a fortnight during the General Strike of 1926, its contents largely carried from BBC bulletins.
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