''The Hinckley Times'' is a weekly paid-for tabloid newspaper which is distributed every Wednesday and mainly serves the 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 ...

. The paper further serves the surrounding areas in

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

, including

Market Bosworth Market Bosworth is a market town and civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. It is most famously near to the site of the decisive final battle of ...

Coalville Coalville is an industrial town in the district of North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England, with a population at the 2011 census of 34,575. It lies on the A511 trunk road between Leicester and Burton upon Tr ...

and

Lutterworth Lutterworth is a market town and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The town is located in southern Leicestershire, close to the borders with Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. It is located north of Rugby, ...

Founding

The Hinckley Times was founded in January 1889 by Thomas Baxter, the son of John Baxter, who was a newspaper printer and publisher in the town. In 1922, 35 years after the creation of The ''Times'', Baxter merged the paper with a rival town publication owned by local printer Arthur Pickering, named The Hinckley Times & Guardian, Bosworth Herald & South Leicestershire Advertiser. Following the acquisition of the paper, it was renamed to the much simpler title of The Hinckley Times and Guardian, which better reflected the merger. From 1962, the title was swapped back to the original and current title of The Hinckley Times. In June 1980, The Hinckley Times moved out of the Baxter family's Castle Street newspaper offices, printing, and publishing house to a new premises on Brunel Road. On 29 February 1996, The Hinckley Times launched 'one of the first ever websites' for a local newspaper. The newspaper stopped trading as an independent publication when it was acquired in 1997 by Coventry Newspapers Limited. Following several takeovers and mergers, the owners became Trinity Mirror, who operate in the modern day as Reach plc. The Hinckley Times stayed in Brunel Road until 2012 when the offices were flattened to make way for a newly-built bus station as a part of The Crescent's shopping and leisure complex. This seen the paper move to The Atkins Building on 23 November 2012. In October 2019, it was announced by the Times' owner, Reach plc, that the Hinckley Times' newspaper offices inside of The Atkins Building would close and move to the

Leicester Mercury The ''Leicester Mercury'' is a British regional newspaper for the city of Leicester and the neighbouring counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. The paper began in the 19th century as the ''Leicester Daily Mercury'' and later changed to its pre ...

offices in

Leicester city centre Leicester City Centre is Leicester's historical commercial, cultural and transport hub and is home to its central business district. Its inner core is roughly delineated by the A594, Leicester's inner ring road, although the various central c ...

by the end of the year. The closure of the offices affected two Hinckley journalists working in town, and three

Loughborough Echo The ''Loughborough Echo'' is a paid-for weekly local newspaper owned by Reach plc. History Founded by Joseph Deakin in 1891, the ''Echo'' has had four editors in its history. It is based in the town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, and ...

journalists in

Loughborough Loughborough ( ) is a market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and Loughborough University. At the 2011 census the town's built-up area had a population of 59,932 , the second larg ...

who also seen their offices close at the same time.

References

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