[7] It served its main target area of Hinckley and Bosworth, as well as the villages of Barwell, Burbage, and Earl Shilton in Leicestershire.
[12][13][14] Both publications were owned by the same parent company of Coventry Newspapers Limited,[15][16][17] a division of the Trinity Mirror group.
[18][19][20] On 17 June 2007, writers at the Herald decided to go on a 24-hour organised strike and walk-out which was arranged by members of the National Union of Journalists to protest over pay with Coventry's newspaper journalists at their Trinity Mirror-owned titles.
[21][22] The paper was headquartered on Station Road in Hinckley before the publication's staff members merged with The Hinckley Times staff members in their now-demolished offices which were located on Brunel Road.
[23] The last copy of the Herald & Journal to be printed was in 2011 before it finally ceased publication.