''The Bucks Herald'' is a weekly newspaper, published every Wednesday and covering

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and its surrounding villages in the

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area of

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. It was first published on 7 January 1832.

History

At its launch the full title of the newspaper was ''The Bucks Herald, Farmers' Journal and Advertisers' Chronicle for Bucks, Beds, Herts, Berks, Oxon, Northamptonshire''. It also incorporated the '' Windsor and Eton Journal''. The front page of the newspaper carried only advertisements, a tradition which continued for over one hundred years. Politically it was explicitly stated to be the only newspaper in the County of Buckingham which supported the

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, a position reinforced in its editorial when it came under new management in 1856. The price in that year was reduced to 4½ d. In 1872 the Management of the Herald further reduced its price to 2d having taken over two local competitors, the ''Bucks Gazette'' and the ''Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Chronicle''. By 1912 the ''Herald'' was selling at just 1d.The Bucks Herald 1832-1963, published 15 February 2007
Accessed 13 February 2013 Historical copies of the ''Bucks Herald'', dating back to 1833, are available to search and view in digitised form at The

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Present day

The paper covers local news, features, leisure and sport. Th
following facsimile
shows front page spread of the paper in 1971. The sport section features extensive coverage of Aylesbury FC the town's football club. In May 2012 the paper changed from

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format to

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. Alongside the main ''Bucks Herald'' paper, the group used to publish the free ''Bucks Advertiser'' every Friday but this closed in 2019.

References

External links

* Aylesbury Newspapers published in Buckinghamshire Publications established in 1832 1832 establishments in England Newspapers published by Johnston Press {{England-newspaper-stub