The ''Chester Standard'' is a weekly free newspaper in

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 ...

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...

. The paper was originally published by North Wales Weekly News (NWN Media) as a sister publication to the '' Chester Evening Leader''. Since it was deregistered by NWN Media from newspaper ciculations, its readership is unknown. The weekly newspaper was delivered free to residents until July 2017 before switiching to being sold in retailers. The ''Chester Standard'' was voted by the UK's Newspaper Society the ''Free Weekly Newspaper of the Year in the North West, North East and Yorkshire 2008''. In January 2019, NWN Media – which was founded in May 1920 – was dissolved and folded into

Gannett Gannett Co., Inc. ( ) is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several ...

, an American mass media holding company. In recent years, the newspaper has switched much of its output from print to its online website.

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