''The Leader'' (formerly ''The Wrexham Evening Leader'') is a daily

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in Wales which is distributed on weekday mornings, combining both local and national news. There are two ''Leader'' editions in the north-east of Wales: in

Wrexham Wrexham ( ; ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in the North East Wales, north-east of Wales. It lies between the Cambrian Mountains, Welsh mountains and the lower River Dee, Wales, Dee Valley, near the England–Wales border, borde ...

and

Flintshire Flintshire () is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, the Dee Estuary to the north-east, the English county of Cheshire to the east, Wrexham County Borough to the south, and Denbighshire to the west. ...

with the

Chester Chester is a cathedral city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, Wales, River Dee, close to the England–Wales border. With a built-up area population of 92,760 in 2021, it is the most populous settlement in the borough of Cheshire West an ...

edition being terminated in 2018. It costs 95 pence and is produced from an office in

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. It was sold to

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in September 2017. NWN Media Ltd dissolved in January 2019 after being formed in 1920. NWN titles de-registered from ABC measurement in 2015, but Newsquest re-registered them in 2018. ABC figures from March 2024 show a total 3,041 copies for the Leader, with 35% (1,065 copies) attributed to the Flintshire edition and 65% to the Wrexham edition (1,977 copies). ''The Leader'' celebrated 40 years of publishing in October 2013, having launched the first edition in October 1973. A ''Wrexham Leader'' free edition used to be produced for Friday and Saturday delivery but was terminated in 2018, and the Wrexham office of the newspaper closed in December 2018. On 3 April 2006, ''The Leader'' underwent a style change, and changed its logo to a new, more modern style. The old font and style had been used since the newspaper began. From 14 September 2009, the paper shifted from being an evening paper called ''The Evening Leader'' to a morning paper entitled ''The Leader'' and adopted the current masthead. The ''Saturday Leader'' was launched as a Saturday edition of the newspaper on 4 August 2018; however, it was stopped in December 2019.

References

External links

The Leader's website
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