Hinckley Herald & Journal

The Hinckley Herald & Journal,[1][2][3] best known as The Hinckley Herald and Classified Journal,[4][5][6] was a weekly freesheet tabloid newspaper founded in 1985.[7] It served its main target area of Hinckley and Bosworth, as well as the villages of Barwell, Burbage, and Earl Shilton in Leicestershire.[8][9]

Hinckley Herald & Journal
TypeWeekly freesheet
FormatTabloid
PublisherCoventry Newspapers
Founded1985
Political alignmentNon-partisan
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication2011
HeadquartersHinckley
Leicestershire
CountryEngland
Sister newspapersBedworth Echo
Coventry Citizen
Hinckley Times
Nuneaton Tribune

The Hinckley Herald was the town's first weekly freesheet newspaper[10][11] and was launched as the sister title to the town's more well-known and recognisable title of The Hinckley Times.[12][13][14] Both publications were owned by the same parent company of Coventry Newspapers Limited,[15][16][17] a division of the Trinity Mirror group.[18][19][20]

On 17 June 2007, writers at the Herald decided to go on a 24-hour organised strike and walk-out which was arranged by members of the National Union of Journalists to protest over pay with Coventry's newspaper journalists at their Trinity Mirror-owned titles.[21][22]

The paper was headquartered on Station Road in Hinckley before the publication's staff members merged with The Hinckley Times staff members in their now-demolished offices which were located on Brunel Road.[23]

The last copy of the Herald & Journal to be printed was in 2011 before it finally ceased publication.[24]

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