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Mansfield Chad

The Mansfield Chad is a series of two weekly tabloid newspapers sold in the Nottinghamshire town of Mansfield and surrounding parts of west Notts and eastern Derbyshire.

It was founded in 1952 as the Mansfield & North Nottinghamshire Chronicle Advertiser, as a result of the merger of the Mansfield & North Notts Advertiser (founded in 1871) and the younger Mansfield, Sutton and Kirkby Chronicle (1895). It absorbed the oldest Mansfield newspaper, the Mansfield Chronicle (founded 1858), in 1956. Unsurprisingly, the new name was too much of a mouthful for most, and the name of Chad (CHronicle ADvertiser) was soon settled upon.

It’s published by North Notts Newspapers Ltd, which is part of the Johnston Press nationwide group of regional newspapers. Its sister newspapers in the Johnston network of websites are the Derbyshire Times, the Hucknall Dispatch and the Worksop Guardian.

It switched from broadsheet to tabloid format in 1981.

It claims to be the second largest weekly regional newspaper in the United Kingdom.

In early 2009 the former Sherwood & Rainworth, Woodhouse & Warsop and Shirebrook & Bolsover editions were discontinued and replaced with a single Village edition, leaving just three editions. In 2011 the Village edition was also discontinued, leaving just the Mansfield edition and a smaller Ashfield edition. Both come out on Wednesdays.

There are also two related weekly freesheet tabloids, the Mansfield & Ashfield Observer and the Alfreton Chad.

  • Address:
  • Mansfield Chad
    121 Newgate Lane
    MANSFIELD
    NG18 2PA
  • Tel:
  • 01623 456789
  • Fax:
  • 01623 464647

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