The Chester Chronicle is a UK local weekly newspaper for the Chester and Cheshire area, first established in the 18th century. Chester is the County town of Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77040 Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a county in North West England. It is one of the UK's best-selling newspapers, published every Friday.
It has a number of different editions:
In June 2006, the Wirral edition was discontinued. The following month, the Flintshire edition was created by merging the Deeside, Mold & Buckley and Flint & Holywell editions. While the Flintshire Chronicle is considered part of the Chester Chronicle series for purposes of advertising, sales and promotions, their editorial content is entirely separate. Since June 2006, the City edition no longer carries the word 'City' on the masthead.
The newspaper was traditionally printed as a broadsheet. However, recently it has switched to a tabloid format in line with other newspapers.
The newspaper is owned by Trinity Mirror. Trinity Mirror plc is a large United Kingdom Newspaper and Magazine publisher It has a free sister publication, Midweek Chronicle. The Midweek Chronicle is a free weekly newspaper distributed around Chester, England, by Trinity Mirror.
In February 2003, the Chester Chronicle led a campaign against a website that hosted the ribald joke article Chester's guide to: The controversy, which was unwittingly discovered by a would-be visitor to the city. Chester's guide to The controversy refers to a controversial article called Chester's guide to Picking up little girls that describes Pedophile acts of Child Many readers and politicians followed the protest and pushed the search engine Google into removing the site from its database. Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online