The ''Driffield Times & Post'' was a weekly newspaper in

Driffield Driffield, also known as Great Driffield, is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The civil parish is formed by the town of Driffield and the village of Little Driffield. By road, it is north-east of Leeds ...

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. It was owned by Yorkshire Regional Newspapers Ltd a subsidy of the Johnston Press publishing empire.

History

The ''Driffield Times'' paper was founded in 1869 originally it was in a

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format but in 1988 switched to the tabloid format. In September 2011, the ''Times'' merged with another local newspaper, the ''Driffield Post''. It was announced on 10 August 2016 that the Driffield Times and Post along with the Beverley Guardian would cease publication. The last issue of the Driffield Times and Post went on sale on Thursday 15 September 2016 bringing to an end almost 150 years of publication.

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