A surefire way to get your picture in the Gazette is to send a picture of yourself reading it.

And the more exotic the location you pick to enjoy it, the better.

We loved featuring your favourite holiday snaps - as long as the paper was in them too!

And like Alan Whicker, The Gazette has got pretty much everywhere.

The 118 advert was a popular fancy dress choice as we rolled into the 2010s, and we particularly loved a picture from Lee Griffiths' stag do with best man Andy Hudson and his mates in, you guessed it, Benidorm.

Year 8 and Year 9 students from what was then Hall Garth School in Acklam represented the paper abroad - taking it to Disneyland in Paris.

And it looked like Alan and Karen Merser has a great time on the West Bank in Luxor, Egypt.

It was a beautiful day 4,500 feet up in the Southern Alps in Queenstown, New Zealand, when George and Sandra Graham were perusing a paper which reported speculation that Boro were after signing Leon Best.

Taffy Boyle Junior's bachelor party in Las Vegas looked enjoyable in 2008, as we reported on plans for Middlesbrough's super-casino.

And we hope Denis Bell, from Cleveland Twinning Association, enjoyed a few tipples at the Warsteiner Brewery at Troisdorf, Germany - Redcar and Cleveland's twin borough.

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