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 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
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acquired owner Northcliffe Media from
Daily Mail and General Trust
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.
In 2017 the ''Bristol Observer'' was quietly closed, with no warning or announcement to readers. Its final publication was dated 30 November.
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Newspapers published in Bristol
Weekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom
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