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Revision as of 22:46, 18 June 2024

Wellington Weekly News
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Tindle Newspapers
Founded15 November 1860
LanguageEnglish
Circulation1,483 (as of 2023)[1]
Websitewellington-today.co.uk

The Wellington Weekly News is a weekly newspaper in Wellington, Somerset, England.

It was founded as Corner's Wellington Weekly News on 15 November 1860, the same day as the Wellington Times, two of 15 newspapers founded that year in Wellington. Founder Richard Corner owned a printing works on South Street. In 1872, the Weekly News absorbed the Times. Corner retired in 1876, when the paper was purchased by G. Bellamy and F. Whitty. In 1880, Corner's was dropped from the title.[2]

It is owned by the Tindle Group, which bought it in 2006 from Northcliffe Newspapers.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Wellington Weekly News". Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK). 26 February 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Newspapers of Somerset: IX — A Peak Year". Somerset County Herald. 8 October 1960. p. 2. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  3. ^ Tindle adds Wellington Weekly to his newspaper empire