Newbury Weekly News

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The Newbury Weekly News
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Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Blacket Turner Co
Editor Andy Murrill
Founded 1867
Headquarters Newspaper House
Faraday Road
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 2DW
Circulation 20,405[1]
ISSN 0961-9739
OCLC number 500150445
Website www.newburytoday.co.uk

The Newbury Weekly News is an award-winning English local weekly newspaper, covering Newbury and West Berkshire. The paper's website is known as Newbury Today.[2] It is published by the Newbury Weekly News Group.

History

The British Army in Italy 1943: Men of the 2/6th Queen's Regiment read the Newbury Weekly News in their jeep, 29 September 1943.

The newspaper was first published in 1867 by Walter Blacket and Thomas Wheildon Turner.[3] It has been independently and family-owned since its establishment,[3] with Blacket Turner & Co being formed in the 1980s.[4]

Circulation

The newspaper's catchment covers an area of 300 square miles (780 km2) and a population of around 150,000.[4] In the company's certificate of circulation (published in February 2010 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations), the average circulation per issue was 20,405 – 100% of which was through newstrade, single copy and subscription sales.[1]

Awards

In 2006, the newspaper won The Newspaper Society's Best Paid-For Weekly Newspaper award. The newspaper's website was voted Best Website Produced by a Weekly Newspaper.[5] In 2007, Newbury Today was named the Picture Editors' Newspaper Website of the Year, an award it shared with The Sun. [6]

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External links

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