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Royston Crow

The Royston Crow is a weekly freesheet tabloid newspaper delivered to homes in the Hertfordshire town of Royston and surrounding parts of both Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, including the villages of Bassingbourn, Melbourn, Foxton, Heydon and Barkway.

It’s published by Archant Herts & Cambs, a Stevenage-based branch of Archant‘s division for East Anglia, Archant Anglia. The editorial offices are in Royston.

It first appeared on New Year’s Day 1855 as a free monthly newspaper, but switched to weekly publication and started charging 1d. per issue in 1876. Originally owned by Warren Brothers – which became Warren Brothers and Cooke when Joseph Cooke bought the company in 1930 – it passed into Mid-Anglia Newspapers in the 1980s. The East Anglian Daily Times bought it in 1990 before itself passing into Eastern Counties Newspapers – now named the Archant group – in 1995.

There’s a sub-edition for the town of Buntingford, seven miles to the south.

It comes out on Thursdays. An e-edition’s also available free on the website, though you have to register for it; and a small number of copies are distributed via pickup points in the town centre. A slightly larger number of copies are sold through the news trade.

  • Address:
  • Royston Crow
    3 Angel Pavement
    ROYSTON
    SG8 9AS
  • Tel:
  • 01763 244977
  • Fax:
  • 01763 245152
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