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![]() The Sentinel logo | |
Type | Daily newspaper Monday to Saturday |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Reach plc |
Editor | Marc Waddington |
Staff writers | Phil Corrigan (politics) Peter Smith (Stoke City FC) Mike Baggaley (Port Vale FC) Leah Cassady (Staffordshire Newsletter) Hayley Parker Jon Bamber Ruby Davies |
Founded | 1854 |
Political alignment | Non-partisan |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Sentinel House, Bethesda Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom |
Circulation | 8,763(as of 2023) [1] |
Website | www |
The Sentinel is a daily regional newspaper circulating in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire areas of England. It is owned by Reach plc and based at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. [2]
It is the only newspaper delivering daily news and features on professional football clubs Stoke City, Port Vale and Crewe Alexandra. The Sentinel also operates a website with sections on news, sport and entertainment, as well as a comprehensive directory of local businesses.
The publication, which became a morning paper in 2009, [3] is printed from Monday to Saturday.
The Sentinel's patch includes the six towns of The Potteries (Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Stoke), Newcastle-under-Lyme, Leek, Cheadle, Cheddleton, Crewe, Nantwich, Alsager, Sandbach, Stafford, Stone, Biddulph, Congleton and Eccleshall.[ citation needed ]
From 29 June 2015 to 3 January 2016 it had an average daily circulation of 30,957, down from 33,426 from 29 December 2014 to 28 June 2015, and 35,112 during the six months before that. [4]
In 1854, The Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser was first published as a Liberal weekly newspaper from offices in Cheapside, Hanley, on 7 January. [5] The publisher was Hugh Roberts, the Editor Thomas Phillips, a former Northampton bookseller and printer.
One of the objects of the publishers was to campaign for the incorporation of Hanley, but news of the whole pottery district was contained in its columns. The initial price was 3d. By 1873: The Staffordshire Daily Sentinel was introduced at a halfpenny on Tuesday 15 April, publishing daily editions from Monday to Friday, with the Weekly Sentinel, at two pence, continuing to appear on Saturday with by 1883 a large sports section. [6] The Sentinel was the first daily paper to be published in the Potteries.
In 1892, Thomas Twyford agreed a merger between his own paper, the Staffordshire Post, and the Sentinel, with the apparent objective of removing political leanings. [7] In 1898, a new paper company was registered as the Staffordshire Sentinel Ltd.[ citation needed ]
The Daily sentinel ran until 1929 before being replaced by the Evening edition, the Weekly Sentinel ran until 1985, after which only the Evening Sentinel continued. A full archive of the versions of the paper is available up to 1995 on the British Newspaper Archive.
In 2007 the broadsheet Sentinel Sunday ceased production. [8] In 2012: Local World acquired the Sentinel, along with other newspapers owned by Northcliffe Media, from the Daily Mail and General Trust. [9] In 2015, the Sentinel's parent company, Local World, was acquired by the Trinity Mirror Group.[ citation needed ]
The newspaper was based at Sentinel House on Bethesda Street, Hanley. In 2021, Reach PLC announced the office would close with all journalists subsequently working from home. [10]
Marc Waddington became the editor in 2020. [11]
Stoke-on-Trent is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of 36 square miles (93 km2). In 2022, the city had an estimated population of 259,965. It is the largest settlement in Staffordshire and is surrounded by the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Alsager, Kidsgrove and Biddulph, which form a conurbation around the city.
Hanley is one of the six towns that, along with Burslem, Longton, Fenton, Tunstall and Stoke-upon-Trent, amalgamated to form the City of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. The town is the main business, commercial and cultural hub of the wider Potteries area.
Cheadle is a market town and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands District of Staffordshire, England, with a population of 12,000 at the 2021 census. It is located between Uttoxeter, Leek, Ashbourne and Stoke-on-Trent.
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The Express & Star is a regional evening newspaper in Britain. Founded in 1889, it is based in Wolverhampton, England, and covers the West Midlands county and Staffordshire.
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The Stoke Potters previously the Hanley Potters were a British speedway team. As Hanley Potters they raced at the Sun Street Stadium from 1929 to 1963 and as Stoke, the team raced at Loomer Road Stadium in Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1973 to 2019.
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The federation of Stoke-on-Trent was the 1910 amalgamation of the six Staffordshire Potteries towns of Burslem, Tunstall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Fenton and Longton into the single county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. The federation was one of the largest mergers of local authorities, involving the greatest number of previously separate urban authorities, to take place in England between the nineteenth century and the 1960s. The 1910 federation was the culmination of a process of urban growth and municipal change that started in the early 19th century.
Predominantly centred on Hanley and Burslem, in what became the federation of Stoke-on-Trent, the 1842 Pottery Riots took place in the midst of the 1842 General Strike, and both are credited with helping to forge trade unionism and direct action as a powerful tool in British industrial relations.
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The Sneyd Colliery Disaster was a coal mining accident on 1 January 1942 in Burslem in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent. An underground explosion occurred at 7:50 am, caused by sparks from wagons underground igniting coal dust. A total of 57 men and boys died.
Hanley Greyhound Stadium was a greyhound racing and speedway stadium, located in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent from 1928 to 1963.
The North Staffordshire Tramways operated a steam tramway service from 1881 to 1898 in the Staffordshire Potteries area.