{{Infobox newspaper
, name = Rugby Observer
, type = Weekly freesheet
, format = Tabloid
, owner = Bullivant Media
, foundation = 1991
, language = English
, political =
Non-partisan
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, headquarters =
Redditch
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Worcestershire
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England
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, circulation = 2,863
, circulation_date = 2022
, circulation_ref =
, sister newspapers =
, website = {{URL, www.rugbyobserver.co.uk, Rugby Observer
The ''Rugby Observer'' is a free weekly
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
covering
Rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
town in
Warwickshire
Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Av ...
, England, and its surrounding villages. It first published in 1991.
The ''Rugby Observer'' is part of Observer Standard Newspapers which was set up in 1989 by current owners Chris and Pat Bullivant. The company is now called Bullivant Media LTD.
The current editorial team at the ''Rugby Observer'' and its sister title the ''Lutterworth Observer'' comprises Editor in Chief Ian Hughes, deputy editor Andy Morris and Bullivant Media's Warwickshire & West Midlands area chief photographer Jon Mullis.
The ''Lutterworth Observer''Lutterworth Observer website /ref> is a sister paper of the ''Rugby Observer'' and the editorial is produced at the same office located at 45, The Parade Leamington Spa, the central office for Bullivant Media's Warwickshire and
West Midlands
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
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