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Oldham Evening Chronicle
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Owner | Hirst Kidd and Rennie |
| Editor | Jim Williams |
| Founded | 1854 |
| Headquarters | Oldham, Greater Manchester |
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| Website: www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk | |
The Oldham Evening Chronicle is an English daily newspaper published each week day evening. It is a local newspaper which serves the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. There is also a sister edition called Chronicle Weekend published on Thursdays which focuses on upcoming weekend events.
The paper is owned by Hirst Kidd and Rennie Ltd.
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On May 6, 1854, the first edition of the "Oldham Chronicle" was published by a bookseller and printer Daniel Evans in an effort to provide the then thriving cotton manufacturing town of Oldham with its very own locally produced newspaper. Oldham was enjoying rapid economic expansion thanks to the industrial revolution, but local communities had to rely on Manchester papers for news about the town and surrounding districts. The Oldham Chronicle was published in an attempt to fill this gap.
The paper went from strength-to-strength, and became an established and favoured paper for the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham.
Due to this increase in popularity, in 1880, it was decided to produce the paper each week day evening, and the paper changed its name to "Oldham Evening Chronicle". The paper has been produced and published in this way ever since.
- Editor: Jim Williams
- News editor: Mike Attenborough:
- Business Editor: Martyn Torr
- Sports Editor: Bob Young
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