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Citizen makes a welcome return

Business and community leaders have welcomed The Citizen's return to Gloucester, as the paper sets up its new home at the Quays.

Founded 141 years ago, the paper was based in St John's Lane for many years before moving to Cheltenham to join its sister paper, the Echo, first to offices in Clarence Road, before moving to St James' House.

However, the paper retained a branch office at The Oxebode in Gloucester until last year, when the lease came to an end, so while reporters still worked in the city, they reported into the Cheltenham head office.

But following its conversion from a daily to weekly publication last month, the paper has made the move to new offices in The Quays, where it publishes editions for the Forest of Dean and Stroud as well as Gloucester, while The Echo produces Cheltenham and Tewkesbury editions.

Gloucester MP Richard Graham welcomed the move, saying: "Welcome back to Gloucester where The Citizen was founded. Then and now the newspaper is a key part of our city fabric."

Rachael Sugden, Senior Editor for GloucestershireLive.co.uk, Gloucester Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo titles said: "Relocating our headquarters into Gloucester, in the heart of the vibrant Quays development, has been a brilliant move.

"We are a county-wide operation and moving our head office to the county town was long overdue.

"From here we publish the GloucestershireLive.co.uk website, reaching 6.5million people every month, as well as the Citizen and Echo newspapers.

"Of course, we still have journalists working on the ground and in our communities across the county, with reporters filing copy and unearthing local stories from Cheltenham, the Cotswolds, Stroud, the Forest of Dean and Tewkesbury, just as they have always done."

The new weeklies are priced at £1.85p and contain 200 plus pages, reported from all over the county. They also have a daily online news site at www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk and sister title the Western Daily Press now prints a Gloucestershire edition every day.

Punchline welcomes the return of the Citizen office back to the city where it was first created, bringing new business to the heart of Gloucester. Campaigning newspapers like the Citizen and Echo are the watchdogs of local democracy and life would be much poorer without publications like them.

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