The Weston, Worle & Somerset Mercury is a weekly paid for newspaper that covers Weston-super-Mare and the surrounding areas of Somerset and North Somerset in England. The Weston Mercury was established 1 April 1843 and was family-owned for much of its history. It is now owned by publishing company Archant.
It has won the Newspaper Society's Community Newspaper of the year award numerous times, most recently in 2007 and 2008.
Its office is in the heart of Weston town centre. Also based in the Weston office is the Mercury's sister paper, the North Somerset Times, and the Midweek Mercury, a free weekly newspaper which incorporates the former free advert paper Admag.
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The Weston & Somerset Mercury Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA