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org">The Blackpool Gazette</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Blackpool_Gazette_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/Blackpool_Gazette_logo.svg/250px-Blackpool_Gazette_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/Blackpool_Gazette_logo.svg/375px-Blackpool_Gazette_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/Blackpool_Gazette_logo.svg/500px-Blackpool_Gazette_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="103" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Daily <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspaper</a> (excluding Sundays)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Format</th><td class="infobox-data">Local <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspaper</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_World" title="National World">National World</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Vanessa Sims</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1873</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political alignment</th><td class="infobox-data">Neutral</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">89 Caxton Road, Fulwood, Preston<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Newspaper_circulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper circulation">Circulation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2,555 (as of 2023)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blackpoolgazette.co.uk">blackpoolgazette<wbr />.co<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <i><b>Blackpool Gazette</b></i> (locally marketed as simply <i><b>The Gazette</b></i>) is an English daily <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspaper</a> based in <a href="/wiki/Blackpool" title="Blackpool">Blackpool</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a>. Published every day except Sunday, it covers the towns and communities of the <a href="/wiki/The_Fylde" title="The Fylde">Fylde coast</a>. It was founded as <i>The West Lancashire Evening Gazette</i> in 1929 before being renamed the <i>Evening Gazette</i>, and then <i>Blackpool Gazette</i>. The paper's history dates back to a weekly publication founded in 1873. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Blackpool_Gazette&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The newspaper is published by <a href="/wiki/National_World" title="National World">National World</a>, and is known locally as <i>The Gazette</i>. The editor is Vanessa Sims.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two other weekly newspapers are also published – the <i><a href="/wiki/Lytham_St_Annes_Express" title="Lytham St Annes Express">Lytham St.Annes Express</a></i> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Fleetwood_Weekly_News" title="Fleetwood Weekly News">Fleetwood Weekly News</a></i>. It is online at blackpoolgazette.co.uk. </p><p><i>The Gazette</i> had a close link with local football club <a href="/wiki/Blackpool_F.C." title="Blackpool F.C.">Blackpool</a> until the club's relegation from the Premier League in 2011. In 2014, the newspaper decided to scrap club chairman <a href="/wiki/Karl_Oyston" title="Karl Oyston">Karl Oyston</a>'s weekly column "given such disgusting and offensive comments" he made to a Blackpool fan.<sup id="cite_ref-oystonfired_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oystonfired-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Oyston's response was to stop recognizing <i>The Gazette</i> as local media, instead only allowing them to attend national news conferences. The Oystons left the club in 2019.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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