Leicester Mercury

The Leicester Mercury is a daily tabloid newspaper sold in the city of Leicester and the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland, including the towns of Coalville, Loughborough, Market Harborough, Hinckley and Melton Mowbray.

It’s published by Leicester Mercury Group Ltd, part of the Northcliffe Media arm of the Daily Mail and General Trust, from editorial offices in Leicester.

Up until 2006 it had local editions for each of the five towns mentioned above, but these were first consolidated into County East and County West editions, and now apparently only the one main edition appears. It still has reporting staff in each of the towns, though.

In December 2006 the Mercury became only the second newspaper in the Northcliffe group to obtain union recognition, when 79 per cent of staff voting favoured representation by the National Union of Journalists.

There’s a companion group of Mail weekly freesheets, with titles for Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Coalville, Loughborough and Leicester (in two editions: Leicester and Oadby, Wigston & Blaby).

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