The ''Derbyshire Times'' is a weekly local newspaper published in northern

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the no ...

, each edition being on sale from Thursday. Its headquarters are in Chesterfield and much of its coverage centres on the town and the surrounding area. The newspaper also covers parts of the

Peak District The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire, it extends into Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. It includes the Dark Peak, where moorl ...

and

Amber Valley Amber Valley is a local government district and borough in the east of Derbyshire, England, taking its name from the River Amber. It covers a semi-rural zone with four main towns whose economy was based on coal mining and remains to some ext ...

areas. The ''Derbyshire Times'' is the biggest selling weekly newspaper in the county and in Britain’s top ten for circulation. Published in five editions - Chesterfield/Clay Cross, East, North East, Alfreton area, and Matlock/Peak. The ''Derbyshire Times (and Chesterfield Herald)'' was first published on Saturday, January 7, 1854. Historical copies of the ''Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald'', dating back to 1854, are available to search and view in digitised form at The British Newspaper Archive.Digitised copies of the ''Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald''
/ref> In 1978, the paper's publisher Wilfred Edmunds Ltd became the first English acquisition of

Falkirk Falkirk ( gd, An Eaglais Bhreac, sco, Fawkirk) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow. Falkirk had a ...

-based publishers F. Johnston & Co, which later became

Johnston Press Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the '' i'', ''The Scotsman'', the '' Yorkshire Post'', the '' Falkirk Herald'', and Belfast's '' The News Lette ...

. The paper switched from a broadsheet format to tabloid in March 1986 and entered the world of multimedia publishing in 1999 with the launch of its website. The paper has a staff of 4 reporters and 4 photographers, which is supported by a team of voluntary correspondents. The newspaper contains several supplements focusing on property, motoring, business and entertainment in the area. Once possessing their own printing facility at their Chesterfield premises, the ''Derbyshire Times'' has been printed at Johnston Press's Sheffield Web facility in Dinnington since 2007."Johnston Press" notice
, UK Business Park website, 18 April 2007

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