''The Hinckley Herald & Journal'', best known as The Hinckley Herald and Classified Journal, was a weekly

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founded in 1985. It served its main target area of

Hinckley Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England. It is administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Hinckley is the third largest settlement in the administrative county of Leicestershire, after Leicester and Loughbor ...

and Bosworth, as well as the villages of

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, Burbage, and

Earl Shilton Earl Shilton is a market town in Leicestershire, England, about from Hinckley and about from Leicester. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 10,047. Toponymy The town's name derives from the Old English for 'farm/settlement on a she ...

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. The Hinckley Herald was the town's first weekly freesheet newspaper and was launched as the sister title to the town's more well-known and recognisable title of

The Hinckley Times ''The Hinckley Times'' is a weekly paid-for tabloid newspaper which is distributed every Wednesday and mainly serves the area of Hinckley. The paper further serves the surrounding areas in Leicestershire, including Market Bosworth, Coalville and L ...

. Both publications were owned by the same parent company of Coventry Newspapers Limited, a division of the Trinity Mirror group. On 17 June 2007, writers at the Herald decided to go on a 24-hour organised strike and walk-out which was arranged by members of the

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to protest over pay with Coventry's newspaper journalists at their Trinity Mirror-owned titles. The paper was headquartered on Station Road in Hinckley before the publication's staff members merged with The Hinckley Times staff members in their now-demolished offices which were located on Brunel Road. The last copy of the Herald & Journal to be printed was in 2011 before it finally ceased publication.

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