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The ''Shrewsbury Chronicle'' is a local news newspaper in
Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
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, publishing its first edition in 1772. It is printed on Wednesday evening and is on sale or distributed on Thursday. It covers
Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
and the surrounding area, including Church Stretton. The editor of the ''Shrewsbury Chronicle'' is Caroline Jones, who took over from Leon Burakowski in 2020. The newspaper is published by the independently owned
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History

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.Bi-Centenary Souvenir. It was then titled ''The Shrewsbury Chronicle, or Wood's British Commercial Pamphlet''Illustration of first front page. 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 1830s the paper, under the editorship of John Watton, supported the Whigs. The paper covered national, international and local news, with advertisements alone on its front page until February 1953 when major Shropshire-interest news stories began being carried on it. The paper came out as a daily paper for just under a fortnight during the
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bulletins. Over the centuries the paper has had many different offices and printing works around Shrewsbury, apart from a period between 1916 and 1927 when printing was done at Newport because of structural defects pending a rebuild, and later, several times, printing had to be done in
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when the works, then in Castle Foregate, was flooded. It is now based in Abbey Foregate. In 2004 circulation was over 19,000, the highest for 20 years. In 2008 the paper's circulation was 14,015. The paper was awarded Best Campaigning Newspaper in Great Britain 2005 by the Newspaper Society. In 2009, its campaigning on local issues was noted by the Shrewsbury MP,
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Notable Journalists and Contributors

Essayist William Hazlitt's first published work, when a 13-year-old student, was a letter to the ''Chronicle'', printed in July 1791, condemning the Priestley Riots, riots in Birmingham. Henry Lucy, later known as a political journalist under pen-name "Toby, M.P.", was chief reporter at the ''Chronicle'' in 1864. Shropshire author
Mary Webb Mary Gladys Webb (25 March 1881 – 8 October 1927) was an English Romance (literary fiction), romance novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and ...
's first published work was a five-verse poem carried by the paper, written on hearing news of the
Shrewsbury rail accident The Shrewsbury rail accident occurred on 15 October 1907. An overnight sleeping-car and mail train from Manchester to the West of England derailed on the sharply curved approach to Shrewsbury station, killing 18 people and injuring 33. The acc ...
in 1907. Her brother gave it to the ''Chronicle'' without telling Webb, and the paper printed it anonymously.
Fyfe Robertson James Fyfe Robertson (19 August 1902 – 4 February 1987) was a Scottish television journalist and broadcaster. Biography Robertson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was one of six children of Jane Dunlop and James Robertson, a miner w ...
, the Scots broadcaster, was briefly a trainee reporter with the ''Chronicle'' in 1921.


See also

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Shropshire Star The ''Shropshire Star'' is reputedly the twelfth biggest-selling regional newspaper in the UK. It is based at Grosvenor House, Telford where it covers the whole of Shropshire plus parts of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Cheshire ...
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Midland News Association Midland News Association (also known as MNA Media) is Britain’s largest independent regional news company. It publishes the UK's biggest-selling regional daily newspaper the '' Express & Star'' and its sister title the ''Shropshire Star'', as ...


References


External links


shrewsburychronicle.com
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