Buckinghamshire Examiner

{{Short description|English weekly newspaper}} {{redirect|Buckinghamshire Advertiser|the Aylesbury newspaper the Bucks Advertiser|Bucks Herald}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox newspaper | name = Buckinghamshire Examiner | image = | caption = | type = Weekly newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = {{start date|1889}} | ceased_publication = {{end date|2019|02}} | owners = Reach plc | publisher = Trinity Mirror Southern Ltd | editor = Shujaul Azam | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | staff_writers = | language = English | political_position = | circulation = | headquarters = Uxbridge, Middlesex | oclc = | ISSN = | website = {{URL|http://www.buckinghamshireexaminer.co.uk/}} }} The '''''Buckinghamshire Examiner''''' more usually known as the '''''Bucks Examiner''''' was a weekly newspaper, published on Wednesdays and distributed in the towns of Amersham, Chesham, and the surrounding villages in the Chiltern area of Buckinghamshire, England. Its last owner and publisher was Trinity Mirror.

It was first published in 1889 under the banner ''Amersham Examiner''.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson |author2=Bret Langston |author3=Brenda W. Smith |title=Local Newspapers, 1750-1920|year=2002 |publisher=Clearfield Co Ltd |location=England}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=h7gTAE5kbGAC&q=chesham]</ref> The paper moved to Chesham in the 1890s along with the ''Amersham & Rickmansworth Times''. It was known for a period as the ''Chesham Examiner'' only becoming the ''Bucks Examiner'' in 1906. In the 1960s, following the introduction of lithographic technology, it was the first weekly newspaper in the UK to carry a full colour advert.<ref>[http://chesham.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2009/05/end-of-an-erabut-your-newspape.html End of an era...but your newspaper is going nowhere ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527065711/http://chesham.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2009/05/end-of-an-erabut-your-newspape.html |date=27 May 2009 }}''Bucks Examiner'', Retrieved 30 January 2011</ref> Until 2009 it had its main office in the Chesham town; when this closed the editorial office was relocated to Uxbridge.

The paper covered local news, features, leisure and sport including the exploits of Chesham United football club and Chesham Cricket Club.

The ''Bucks Examiner'' was jointly published by Trinity Mirror Group of Newspapers with the tabloid newspaper the ''Buckinghamshire Advertiser''. The newspapers shared editorial teams and regional news reports.

The ''Buckinghamshire Advertiser'' was founded by William Broadwater in November 1853 as the ''Buckinghamshire Advertiser, and Middlesex, Herts, Berks, Beds, and Oxon Gazette''. By 1861, and after several name changes, it was known as ''Broadwater's Buckinghamshire Advertiser, Uxbridge Journal, Middlesex, Herts, Berks, Beds, and Oxon Gazette''. Since then the paper was bought and sold by a number of owners and underwent several further name changes before being purchased by Trinity Mirror in 2004.<ref>[http://www.heritagebuildsbridges.org.uk/heritage/news/27-Oct-06.htm 'From the Journal to the Gazette - October 2006' Heritage Building Bridges] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319185829/http://www.heritagebuildsbridges.org.uk/heritage/news/27-Oct-06.htm |date=March 19, 2012 }} Retrieved 2 February 2011</ref> It was distributed in Beaconsfield, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter and Gerrards Cross.

==Closure== Parent company Reach plc, (successor to Trinity Mirror), announced the closure of both the ''Buckinghamshire Examiner'' and sister paper ''Buckinghamshire Advertiser'', effective February 2019. It cited a continued decline in local print advertising, which had rendered the titles unsustainable.<ref>{{cite web |title=Harlow Star, Herts & Essex Observer, Bucks Advertiser/Examiner to close |url=https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2019/news/reach-to-close-four-weeklies-due-to-continued-decline-in-print-advertising/ |website=HoldtheFrontPage |accessdate=23 August 2020 |date=23 January 2019}}</ref>

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