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Isle of Thanet Gazette

The Isle of Thanet Gazette is a weekly tabloid newspaper sold in Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs and more generally throughout the Isle of Thanet in north-eastern Kent.

It was founded in 1870 by Thomas Harman Keble and was originally known as Keble’s Gazette. When it was taken over by William John Parrett Ltd of Sittingbourne in 1909, it became the Margate, Ramsgate and Isle of Thanet Gazette and East Kent Advertiser, and took on its present title in 1924.

It’s published by Kent Regional News & Media, a branch of the Daily Mail & General Trust’s regional newspaper publishing division, Northcliffe Media, since they acquired it from Trinity Mirror in 2007. The editorial offices are in Margate, although they moved in January 2009 from Union Row, where the Gazette had been based since 1899.

In 1918 it absorbed a local rival, the Thanet Times, which was resurrected in 1958. They share the same editorial offices and a web presence on KRN Media’s thisiskent.co.uk website (although the web presence has been somewhat downgraded, in line with Northcliffe’s more general repositioning of its websites during 2011).

A former companion weekly freesheet, the Thanet Adscene, was merged into the Thanet Times – which then became a freesheet itself – in 2009.

It comes out on Fridays.

  • Address:
  • Isle of Thanet Gazette
    Suite 1, 3rd Floor
    Mill Lane House
    Mill Lane
    MARGATE
    CT9 1JU
  • Tel:
  • 01843 578994
  • Fax:
  • 01843 296097

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