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The paper you hold in your hands today started off as an idea on the drawing board 30 years ago. The idea was to provide an English-language weekly to the growing number of expatriates in Dubai who did not have a proper source of local news. Despite sceptics saying that the idea of a local newspaper would not work, the first issue of Gulf News was launched on September 30, 1978. The 16-page tabloid hit newsstands and homes at 11 am that day. It was hand-delivered and the first 11 issues were given away free. Gulf News has come a long way from that day. Today it begins its one-year celebration of its 3oth anniversary ? three exciting decades that saw Gulf News becoming the UAE's leading national newspaper and the Middle East's largest English language daily.
And we felt it is only appropriate to start with giving you the front page of the first edition of Gulf News. Click here to see the first ever Gulf News front page (pdf)
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