''Waltham Forest Guardian'' now known as '' Your Local Guardian'', is a weekly local newspaper sold every Thursday in the London boroughs of Waltham Forest and Redbridge. The newspaper's weekly circulation is 2,508 copies, according to ABC figures for July to December 2017. The paper is part of the Guardian Series of local newspapers, which also included the ''Chingford Guardian'', ''

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'', and the '' Epping Forest Guardian''. The group is owned by

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, which also prints dozens of local and regional papers across the UK.

History

Early days

The newspaper was founded in 1876 under the name ''The Walthamstow and Leyton Guardian''. In 1935 the ''Walthamstow Guardian'' opened new headquarters in Forest Road. The newspaper group merged with the ''Epping Gazette'' series in 1942. In 1978 the company moved to new headquarters in Forest Road, Walthamstow. Production later moved to an office in Larkshall Road, Highams Park.

Relocation from Waltham Forest

In 2009 production of the newspaper moved out of Waltham Forest for the first time in its history, with staff relocating to an office in nearby Epping in Essex. The newspaper subsequently relocated again to a

office in Watford. In May 2015

announced it was moving some of the newspaper's production to a 'subbing hub' in

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. The publisher said the move was an investment in the 'installation of a new editorial system to improve operational efficiency within the business and save costs'. But just over a year later, in August 2016, the move was dubbed a 'failed experiment' by the

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after

announced it was cutting 19 jobs at the Weymouth site and again moving production of its newspapers back to local regions. The Weymouth office was then closed in June 2017.

Rebranding

In September 2018 the newspaper was rebranded as ''Your Local Guardian'', the result of a merger between the Chingford, Wanstead and Woodford and Waltham Forest editions.

Editors

* Peter Dyke 2000s * Pat Stannard (Wanstead and Woodford) 2000s - 2008 * Amanda Patterson (group editor) 2007 - 2012 * Anthony Longden (editorial director) 2008 - 2012 * Tim Jones (group editor) 2012 - 2017 * Victoria Birch (group editor) 2017–present

References

External links

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