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The Sentinel’s patch includes the Six Towns<ref> [http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/mytown Towns covered by The Sentinel] pressgazette.co.uk</ref> 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. |
The Sentinel’s patch includes the Six Towns<ref> [http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/mytown Towns covered by The Sentinel] pressgazette.co.uk</ref> 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. |
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The Sentinel is one of the UK’s most trusted regional newspapers with a loyal readership – even as it embraces the digital revolution and devotes more resource than ever before to its online operation – [http://www.thisistaffordshire.co.uk] thisisstaffordshire.co.uk. |
The Sentinel is one of the UK’s most trusted regional newspapers with a loyal readership – even as it embraces the digital revolution and devotes more resource than ever before to its online operation – thisisstaffordshire.co.uk <small>[http://www.thisistaffordshire.co.uk]</small> thisisstaffordshire.co.uk. In addition there are dedicated sites for business in Staffordshire [http://www.thisisbusiness-staffordshire.co.uk thisisbusiness-staffordshire]; Port Vale Football Club [http://www.thewonderofyou.co.uk Port Vale news and fan site]; Crewe Alexandra [http://www.superalex.co.uk Crewe Alex news and fan site] and the increasingly popular Why Delilah website [http://www.whydelilah.co.uk Why Delilah - Stoke City news and fan site] which is named after the <ref> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jones_(singer) |
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In recent years, The Sentinel has placed great emphasis on championing the communities it serves. |
In recent years, The Sentinel has placed great emphasis on championing the communities it serves. |
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Revision as of 11:52, 19 August 2009
 The Sentinel logo | |
| Type | Daily newspaper Monday to Saturday |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Daily Mail and General Trust |
| Publisher | Northcliffe Media |
| Editor | Mike Sassi |
| Staff writers | John Abberley, Alan Cookman, Mike Wolfe, John Woodhouse, Martin Tideswell |
| Founded | January 7, 1854 (possibly earlier) |
| Political alignment | Non-partisan |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Sentinel House, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent England |
| Circulation | 61,910[1] |
| Website | http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/ |
The Sentinel is a daily regional newspaper circulating in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire area. It is currently owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust under the Northcliffe Media publishing group and based at Sentinel House, Etruria Stoke-on-Trent.
The publication, which became a morning paper in March 2009 [2], is printed from Monday to Saturday and has three editions daily – a main edition, a Cheshire edition and a Moorlands edition.
The Sentinel’s patch includes the Six Towns[3] 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.
The Sentinel is one of the UK’s most trusted regional newspapers with a loyal readership – even as it embraces the digital revolution and devotes more resource than ever before to its online operation – thisisstaffordshire.co.uk [1] thisisstaffordshire.co.uk. In addition there are dedicated sites for business in Staffordshire thisisbusiness-staffordshire; Port Vale Football Club Port Vale news and fan site; Crewe Alexandra Crewe Alex news and fan site and the increasingly popular Why Delilah website Why Delilah - Stoke City news and fan site which is named after the [4]song which is the fans anthem.
In recent years, The Sentinel has placed great emphasis on championing the communities it serves.
Examples include its Proud of the Potteries campaign which was a rebuttal to the soundbite that “Stoke-on-Trent was the worst place to live in England and Wales”, according to a survey carried out on behalf of a national newspaper in April 2001.
Other examples include The Sentinel presenting a 19,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street calling for a new hospital to be built in North Staffordshire and successfully campaigning for a local government referendum.
The Sentinel provides unrivalled coverage of the Potteries’ two professional football teams – Premier League Stoke City and League Two Port Vale. The newspaper also reports on League Two Crewe Alexandra.
The Sentinel boasts a long-running cartoon strip by Dave Follows called May un Mar Lady which uses the local Potteries dialect to chart the relationship of an unnamed slob and his wife.
The Sentinel also has a stable of popular columnists including John Abberley, Alan Cookman, John Woodhouse, Mike Wolfe and Martin Tideswell.
The newspaper has, in recent years, added a number of community-based campaigns and events to its portfolio.
The Sentinel, in conjunction with Britannia Building Society runs an annual community awards scheme called Our Heroes which culminates in a gala celebrity dinner.
Sentinel staff also organise the City of Stoke-on-Trent Sports Personality of the Year awards and are heavily involved with the pioneering Stoke’s Top Talent variety competition championed by local stage star Jonathan Wilkes.
In addition to The Sentinel, journalists at The Sentinel’s headquarters also produce The Advertiser series of weekly newspapers, The Post & Times series of weekly newspapers, a bygones supplement called The Way We Were and the glossy, monthly North Staffordshire Magazine.
Sentinel Sunday
The Sentinel Sunday ceased production in 2007.[5]
May un Mar Lady
May un Mar lady is a comic strip written in Potteries dialect that first appeared on July 8, 1986 in the North Staffordshire Evening Sentinel and has been a local institution for over 20 years. The full twenty-year run (7,000 strips) of cartoonist Dave Follows' daily cartoon strip is being republished in the Evening Sentinel, as May un Mar Lady Revisited.
Alan Cookman described the comeback as: “The most exciting homecoming since Stanley Matthews returned to Stoke from his footballing adventure with Blackpool.”
Awards
- West Midlands Newspaper of the Year 2003
- West Midlands Newspaper of the Year 2004[6]
References
- ^ Profile at holdthepage.co.uk
- ^ Stoke Sentinel makes switch to overnight priniting pressgazette.co.uk
- ^ Towns covered by The Sentinel pressgazette.co.uk
- ^ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jones_(singer) Tom Jones] Wiki
- ^ Axe falls on the Sentinel Sunday pressgazette.co.uk
- ^ Sentinel is hailed 'the best' at regional press awards holdthefrontpage.co.uk
External links
- Newspaper Report for the publication nsdatabase.co.uk