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The ''Islington Gazette'' is a weekly paid-for newspaper covering the borough of Islington in north
London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...
, England. It was established as the ''Daily Gazette'' in 1856, publishing twice weekly from 1926. It was owned by
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until 2003, when it was bought by
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. The ''Stoke Newington and Hackney Observer'' was founded as the ''North London Observer'' in 1939 and merged with the ''Islington Gazette'' in 1971, which subsequently published as the ''Islington Gazette and Stoke Newington Observer''. The ''Gazette'' celebrated its 150th birthday on 21 September 2006. It is published on Thursdays from offices on Tottenham Lane,
Hornsey Hornsey () is a district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Haringey. It is an inner-suburban, for the most part residential, area centred north of Charing Cross. It adjoins green spaces Queen's Wood to the west and Alexand ...
and covers local news and sport in
Islington Islington ( ) is an inner-city area of north London, England, within the wider London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's #Islington High Street, High Street to Highbury Fields ...
, Archway,
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, Holloway and surrounding boroughs such as Hackney and
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.


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Islington Tribune The ''Islington Tribune'' is a free, independent newspaper that covers the London Borough of Islington in north London. It was founded in 2003 as a sister paper to the ''Camden New Journal''. It carries significant influence locally due to its hig ...
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