The Chard and Ilminster News is a local newspaper in Somerset, England.
History The newspaper was established in Chard, Somerset, about 1874, as a weekly newspaper published on Saturdays, priced at one penny,Sir John Richard Somers Vine, The County Companion, Diary, Statistical Chronicle (1883), p. 242: "Chard and Ilminster News, Saturday. 1d. L. 1874. T. Young, Chard" The Official Guide to the London and South Western Railway (Cassell and Company, 1894), p. 113 and in 1882 was identified as Liberal-supporting, with a circulation of one thousand copies. It was then in competition with the longer-established Nowlen's Weekly Chronicle, Chard, Ilminster, and Axminster Gazette, which was Conservative and was selling 850 copies at a higher price.Hubbard's Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World (1882), p. 1,587
Present day The newspaper continues to be published weekly in Chard and covers the local news, events, jobs, births, deaths and marriages of Chard, Ilminster, Crewkerne, and the villages of South Somerset.Main page, Chard and Ilminster News, accessed 21 February 2021
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External links Chard and Ilminster News, web site