The ''Chard and Ilminster News'' is a long-established local newspaper in
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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England
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History
The newspaper was established in
Chard, Somerset, about 1874, as a weekly newspaper published on Saturdays, priced at one penny,
and in 1882 was identified as
Liberal
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Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
-supporting, with a circulation of one thousand copies. It was then in competition with the longer-established ''Nowlen's Weekly Chronicle, Chard, Ilminster, and Axminster Gazette'', which was
Conservative
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and was selling 850 copies at a higher price.
Present day
The newspaper continues to be published weekly in Chard and covers the local news, events, jobs, births, deaths and marriages of Chard,
Ilminster
Ilminster is a minster town and civil parish in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England, with a population of 5,808. Bypassed in 1988, the town now lies just east of the junction of the A303 (London to Exeter) and the A358 (Taunton to C ...
,
Crewkerne
Crewkerne ( ) is a town and electoral ward in Somerset, England, southwest of Yeovil and east of Chard all in the South Somerset district. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Coombe, Woolminstone and Henley – and b ...
, and the villages of
South Somerset
South Somerset is a local government district in Somerset, England.
The South Somerset district covers an area of ranging from the borders with Devon, Wiltshire and Dorset to the edge of the Somerset Levels. It has a population of approxim ...
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Main page
''Chard and Ilminster News'', accessed 21 February 2021
Notes
External links
Chard and Ilminster News
web site
Newspapers published in Somerset
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