Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard

Dunoon Observer
and Argyllshire Standard

A front page from 27 February 2009
Type	Weekly
Format	Tabloid
Owner	None[1]
Founded	25 March 1871
Headquarters	John Street, Dunoon
Official website	Dunoon-Observer.co.uk

The Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard is a weekly tabloid newspaper serving the Cowal area of Argyll, in western Scotland. It is edited and printed in Dunoon, and is known locally as the Standard. It is published by E & R Inglis, Ltd.

Founded on 25 March 1871 in nearby Sandbank by William Inglis, Sr.,^[2] who was editor and proprietor, it moved to Dunoon for the first time in 1906, where it remained until 1985. That year its printing was moved to Oban, where it was printed alongside The Oban Times. It returned to Dunoon in 1991. The newspaper currently has a circulation of around 5,500.^[1] It remains as the only truly independent newspaper in Argyll and Bute still owned by the same family that established the title.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Technical page at Dunoon-Observer.co.uk
2. ^ History of the newspaper

External links

• Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard On Line Edition