{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Wellington Weekly News | image = Wellington Weekly news office.jpg | caption = | type = Weekly newspaper | format = Tabloid | founded = 15 November 1860 | ceased_publication = | price = | owners = Tindle Newspapers | publisher = | editor = | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | staff_writers = | language = English | political_position = | circulation = 1,483 | circulation_date = 2023 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/5839 |title=Wellington Weekly News |publisher= Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK) |date=26 February 2024 |access-date=18 June 2024}}</ref> | headquarters = | ISSN = | website = {{URL|wellington-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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Newspapers of Somerset: IX — A Peak Year |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000528/19601008/032/0002 |accessdate=17 November 2018 |work=Somerset County Herald |date=8 October 1960 |page=2|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
It is owned by the Tindle Group, which bought it in 2006 from Northcliffe Newspapers.<ref>[http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/36147 Tindle adds Wellington Weekly to his newspaper empire]</ref>
==Former journalists== *Richard Cottrell, (1942-2024), who went on to become an MEP<ref>{{Cite web |last=Linford |first=Paul |title=Journalist turned MEP Richard Cottrell dies aged 81 - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage |url=https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2024/news/journalist-who-went-on-to-become-a-euro-mp-dies-aged-81/ |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=HoldtheFrontPage |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{official website|www.wellington-today.co.uk}}
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Category:Newspapers published in Somerset Category:Wellington, Somerset Category:1860 establishments in England Category:Newspapers established in 1860
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