4-543: The Bristol Observer started out as the Kingswood and Keynsham Observer , a weekly paper, but at this time it was a paid for publication. In 1981 it became part of the Bristol Observer series and was distributed free. It underwent changes in editorial format and style, including a trashy sensationalist incarnation edited by Peter J. O'Reilly for a few years in the early 2000s. It subsequently largely comprised
8-563: A small selection of bland "repurposed" material from its sister Bristol Post , with Post editor Michael Norton also notionally overseeing the Observer . In 2012, Local World acquired owner Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust . In 2017 the Bristol Observer was quietly closed, with no warning or announcement to readers. Its final publication was dated 30 November. This English newspaper–related article
12-668: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Local World Local World Holdings Ltd. was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK that published around 100 print titles and more than 70 websites. It was formed in 2012 by David Montgomery, a former chief executive of Trinity Mirror , to buy the Daily Mail and General Trust 's Northcliffe Media business, and the Yattendon Group 's Iliffe newspaper group. In October 2015 Trinity Mirror, now Reach plc , bought
16-595: The company. The sale was completed on 13 November 2015. In April 2017 the Local World website started redirecting to the Trinity Mirror website. Local World was established in 2012 by David Montgomery, in order to purchase local newspaper businesses. In November 2012, it was announced that it would purchase Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust, and separately, the Iliffe newspaper group from
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