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Basingstoke Gazette

The Basingstoke Gazette – formally, the Basingstoke & North Hampshire Gazette – is a twice-weekly tabloid newspaper sold in the town of Basingstoke and its immediate surrounds in northern Hampshire, including the nearby smaller towns of Andover, Whitchurch, Overton, Hook and Odiham.

It was founded in 1878 as the Hants & Berks Gazette by John Bird, then owner of the Tiverton Gazette, and his brother Sidney. Shortly after its foundation, the Birds took over the Middlesex Advertiser and the Surrey Advertiser and merged them into the Gazette. The Bird family remained involved in the Gazette‘s management until one of John Bird’s grandsons retired as a director in 1977.

It’s now published by Newsquest (Southern) from editorial offices in Basingstoke which it shares with its freesheet companion, the Basingstoke Extra.

The two editions are the Monday Gazette (which was launched in 1973) and Thursday’s Basingstoke Weekend Gazette.

  • Address:
  • Basingstoke Gazette
    Pelton Road
    BASINGSTOKE
    RG21 6YD
  • Tel:
  • 01256 461131
  • Fax:
  • 01256 840369
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