The ''Wetherby News'' is a local weekly

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published on a Thursday and based in

Wetherby Wetherby () is a market town and civil parish in the City of Leeds district, West Yorkshire, England, close to West Yorkshire county's border with North Yorkshire, and lies approximately from Leeds City Centre, from York and from Harrog ...

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, England. The newspaper was founded in 1859 with its offices on the High Street next to the Angel Inn. The paper's news editor is Janet Harrison, with Jean MacQuarrie as group editor of the parent Ackrill Media Group. Amy Craven is sports editor. The paper is part of the

Johnston Press Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the '' i'', ''The Scotsman'', the ''Yorkshire Post'', the ''Falkirk Herald'', and Belfast's ''The News Letter ...

stable. The paper's news and sport patch includes

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, Boston Spa and Sherburn in Elmet, covering local events from rural North Yorkshire to parts of urban north

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such as Slaid Hill,

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and Whinmoor. The newspaper has its offices on Westgate in Wetherby. The ''Wetherby News'' carries a large property supplement, covering Wetherby as well as the surrounding districts. It also has an in-depth weekend supplement, a full weekly guide to what's on in West and North Yorkshire, entertainment news, live music and cinema guides and full classified listings. The ''Wetherby News'' has a partnership with

Tempo FM Tempo FM is the local community radio station for Wetherby, Boston Spa, as well as the surrounding villages in the West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire areas. The radio station mainly plays easy listening music and is run entirely by volunteers ...

with whom it provides a weekly news review every Friday morning. In 2012 the ''Wetherby News'' became a tabloid and moved its publications from a Friday to a Thursday.

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