''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, administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Hinckley is the third largest settlement in Leicestershire, after Leicester and Loughborough, and is about halfway between L ...

and Bosworth, as well as the villages of

Barwell Barwell is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, with a population of 8,750 residents in 2001, increasing to 9,022 at the 2011 census. The name "Barwell" literally translates as "Stream of the Boar" and is said to originate from ...

, Burbage, and Earl Shilton in

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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. Both publications were owned by the same parent company of Coventry Newspapers Limited, a division of the

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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

-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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