Mansfield Chad
The Mansfield Chad is a series of five 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 Wilfred Edmunds 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.
The five editions cover (in approximate order order of circulation size, biggest first):
- Mansfield
- Ashfield
- Sherwood & Rainworth
- Woodhouse & Warsop
- Shirebrook & Bolsover
They all come out on Wednesdays.
There’s also a related weekly freesheet tabloid, the Mansfield & Ashfield Observer.
Website: http://www.chad.co.uk/
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