Shields Gazette

The Shields Gazette, established in 1849, is a daily newspaper, which claims to be the oldest provincial evening newspaper in the United Kingdom.
It was originally established as a weekly paper - the North and South Shields Gazette and Northumberland and Durham Advertiser - but became a daily evening paper after the repeal of Stamp Duty in 1855. Later it became the Shields Gazette and Shipping Telegraph.
It is now part of North East Press, a division of Johnston Press, and the paper has been printed on the presses of the Sunderland Echo in Pennywell, Sunderland, [Tyne and Wear|Sunderland], since 1992. In July 2012 most of the reporters, sports and editing staff moved to a new base at the Sunderland Echo.
The paper covers the whole of South Tyneside. In the period December 2010-June 2011, it had an average daily circulation of 15,161.