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The Weston Mercury left its Waterloo Street office in the town centre last month.

History of the Weston Mercury office from 1885 to 2021.

After WW2 people turned increasingly to magazines, wireless and television, and large broadsheet newspapers - ideal for armchair reading or even hiding behind to avoid conversing with fellow train passengers - began to feel the competitive pinch.   Amalgamation is often the precursor to annihilation and, though huge numbers of local titles have been lost across the country in the past half-century, the Mercury has survived. It bought out the Gazette in 1951 and for the past 70 years has been this area’s only paid-for local rag.  James Dare took on William Frampton as a young reporter and ...