A North Yorkshire weekly went back in time and turned sepia this week to celebrate its 10,000th issue.

The Gazette & Herald, which is based in York but covers a large rural area of North Yorkshire, produced a front page aimed at capturing the spirit of the newspaper in bygone days.

Photographs were produced in sepia and deliberately outdated headline fonts were used as part of the front page presentation, as well as in a two-page special on the newspaper's history.

The first Yorkshire Gazette was published on Saturday, April 24, 1819, and a reproduction of the original front page was used in this week's edition of the paper.

The Gazette & Herald is the result of a merger which took place in the 1950s between two newspapers - the Yorkshire Gazette and the York Herald, which dates back even further than the Gazette, to 1790.

This week's Gazette & Herald also featured a rather unusual competition to mark the 10,000th edition.

The newspaper is giving away 10,000 jelly beans and a dispenser to the reader whose name is picked at random from all the entries.

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