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Ofotens Tidende is an online newspaper published in Narvik, Norway. From 1899 to 2000, Ofotens Tidende was a Conservative newspaper owned by Harstad Tidende. In the last year of publication, it had a circulation of 3,606, compared to the competitor Fremover 's 10,114. It reappeared as a pure online newspaper in 2007.

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