Herald & Post (Teesside) Each edition is a mixture of general news, local news, sports and events information. Herald & Post (Teesside) The Herald & Post is a free newspaper series published by the "Evening Gazette" in Teesside. The "Herald & Post" is a free weekly newspaper delivered to the majority of households in the Tees Valley area. There are six different editions of the "Herald & Post" published each week in order to make it specifically relevant to the area that it will be distributed to. The six editions are made up of: the Middlesbrough edition, the Stockton & Billingham edition, the East
English of Northumbria (spoken in mining towns such as Ashington), Mackem (spoken in Wearside) and arguably Smoggie (Teesside). It is spoken mainly if not exclusively in the modern day counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and Durham. The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria was much more extensive than this, covering most parts of Yorkshire, and some parts of Cumbria, Lancashire and Scotland. The major Northumbrian dialects today are Geordie, Northern Northumbrian, Western Northumbrian, Southern Northumbrian or Pitmatic, Mackem, and arguably Smoggie, which is transitional between Northumbrian and Yorkshire English. To an outsider's ear the similarities between the dialects far outweigh the differences between the