WELCOME to your NEW Ledbury Reporter.

From today your favourite newspaper is bigger, better and brighter – and packed with value.

We are adding a miminum of 16 extra pages each week to make our coverage more comprehensive and valuable to you. Here is what you get for your money:

*More pages packed with local stories, including an extra page devoted to Herefordshire county news.

*More pages of YOUR community, village and club news, starting on Page 35.

*Two NEW pages of schools news, starting on Page 32.

*Two EXTRA sports pages

*A new EIGHT-PAGE leisure section, starting on Page 41.

*An extra letters page packed with lively debate about important local issues.

All your regular favourites are there too, of course.

Our homes section is packed with properties for sale or rent for all budgets, your family notices are on Pages 38 and 39, Motoring starts on Page 79, Recruitment on Page 84 and classified advertising on Page 86.

To get your new deal off to a flying start we have a fabulous offer for you today – a FREE Greggs coffee (Malvern branch) for every reader of the Ledbury Reporter, and a chance to win a family ticket to the Doctor Who experience.

There is also the chance to win £1,000 of vouchers to spend at Waitrose.

We will be in the supermarket in Edith Walk, Great Malvern, today (Friday) and tomorrow with a special promotions stand.

Please drop in and see us and tell us what you think of your new-look newspaper.

Our price has risen to 90p today. We know that rises of any sort are hard to stomach in tough economic times.

But it will help us pay for the improvements needed to keep your local newspaper strong, and it still represents excellent value for money for 96 information-packed pages.

We do hope you enjoy your new Ledbury Reporter.