The Driffield Times is a weekly newspaper in Driffield

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....

, East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Yorkshire, is a local government district with unitary authority status, and a ceremonial county of England. For ceremonial purposes the county also includes the city of Kingston upon Hull, which is a separate unitary authority...

, England

England

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. It is owned by Yorkshire regional Newspapers Ltd a subsidy of the Johnston Press publishing empire.

History

The paper was founded in 1860 originally it was in a broadsheet

Broadsheet

Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet...

 format but in 1988 switched to the tabloid format.

Content of the newspaper

The paper is published every Wednesday. The paper includes local news and sport.

In September 2011, the Times merged with another local newspaper, the Driffield Post, this 'new' publication is still published weekly, but is now twice the volume.