The Bucks Herald

{{redirect|Bucks Advertiser|the South Bucks newspaper the Buckinghamshire Advertiser|Buckinghamshire Examiner}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Bucks Herald | image = | caption = | type = Weekly newspaper | format = Compact | founded = 1832 | ceased_publication = | owners = National World | publisher = Premier Newspapers Ltd | editor = Hayley O'Keeffe | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | staff_writers = | language = English | political_position = | circulation = 798 | circulation_date = 2024 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/2191 |title=Bucks Herald |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK) |date=17 February 2025 |access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref> | headquarters = Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire | oclc = | ISSN = | website = {{URL|bucksherald.co.uk}} }}

'''''The Bucks Herald''''' is a weekly newspaper, published every Wednesday and covering Aylesbury and its surrounding villages in the Aylesbury Vale area of Buckinghamshire, England. It was first published on 7 January 1832.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

==History== At its launch the full title of the newspaper was ''The Bucks Herald, Farmers' Journal and Advertisers' Chronicle for Bucks, Beds, Herts, Berks, Oxon, Northamptonshire''. It also incorporated the ''Windsor and Eton Journal''. The front page of the newspaper carried only advertisements, a tradition which continued for over one hundred years. Politically it was explicitly stated to be the only newspaper in the County of Buckingham which supported the Conservative Party, a position reinforced in its editorial when it came under new management in 1856. The price in that year was reduced to 4½d. In 1872 the Management of the Herald further reduced its price to 2d having taken over two local competitors, the ''Bucks Gazette'' and the ''Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Chronicle''. By 1912 the ''Herald'' was selling at just 1d.<ref>[http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/community/the-bucks-herald-1832-1963-1-603724 The Bucks Herald 1832-1963, published 15 February 2007], Accessed 13 February 2013</ref>

Historical copies of the ''Bucks Herald'', dating back to 1833, are available to search and view in digitised form at The British Newspaper Archive.<ref name=BNA>[http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?newspaperTitle=Bucks%20Herald Digitised copies of the ''Bucks Herald'']</ref>

==Present day== The paper covers local news, features, leisure and sport. The [http://www.borstalboy.co.uk/resources/Bucks%20Herald%20Original%20Front%20Page.jpg following facsimile] shows front page spread of the paper in 1971. The sport section features extensive coverage of Aylesbury FC the town's football club.

In May 2012 the paper changed from broadsheet format to compact.

Alongside the main ''Bucks Herald'' paper, the group used to publish the free ''Bucks Advertiser'' every Friday but this closed in 2019.

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==External links== *{{official website|https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/}} {{Clear}}

Category:Aylesbury Category:Newspapers published in Buckinghamshire Category:Newspapers established in 1832 Category:1832 establishments in England Category:Newspapers published by Johnston Press