Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | National World |
Editor-in-chief | Gary Shipton |
Founded | 1859 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | The Observer, Third Floor, Creative Media Centre, 45 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL |
Circulation | 6,364(as of 2022) [1] |
Website | http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk |
The Hastings & St. Leonards Observer, commonly known as just the Hastings Observer, is an English weekly tabloid newspaper, published every Friday since 1859 in Hastings, East Sussex. [2]
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