Wrexham Evening Leader
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distributed on week mornings. It combines local and national news in order to create a morning newspaper
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There are three Leader Papers in the north-east of Wales
Wales
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and the borders: Chester
Chester
Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the...
, Flintshire
Flintshire
Flintshire is a county in north-east Wales. It borders Denbighshire, Wrexham and the English county of Cheshire. It is named after the historic county of Flintshire, which had notably different borders...
, and Wrexham
Wrexham
Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough, and the largest town in North Wales, located in the east of the region. It is situated between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley close to the border with Cheshire, England...
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It costs 45 pence and is produced from a Mold
Mold, Flintshire
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industrial site. It is owned by NWN Media and has a wide circulation. The paper has lent its name to a variety of campaigns and has given continual support to Wrexham F.C..
On weekends, the Wrexham Leader is produced, which is a free edition, but it heavily laden with advertisements and commercials for local businesses.
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.
Yearly, a directory of local businesses is given out (around early April), called the Handy Pages.
From 14 September 2009, the paper shifted from being an evening paper called 'The Evening Leader' to a morning paper entitled 'The Leader'.