Coventry’s newest free weekly newspaper has now gone online.

The Coventry Observer, which was launched by Observer Standard Newspapers Ltd in September, now has its own website.

And now people who don’t receive one of the 120,000 copies of the paper delivered across the city won’t miss out.

www.coventryobserver.co.uk has all the latest news and sport from the weekly paper and a news archive is being developed so readers can check any issues they may have missed or search for past stories on a particular subject.

There is also a month-by-month What’s On guide, a useful local links page, searchable jobs facility and a brief history of Coventry.

Tim Purslow, studio manager at Observer Standard Design said: “The response we’ve had to the website so far has been good.

“It is the first of our new look websites to be launched and hopefully the sites for our other newspapers will move over to the new format by the end of the year.

“The editor selects the best eight or nine top news stories to go on the site and there is a more comprehensive sport section which is updated after the weekend.”

The Coventry Observer’s launch was headed up by husband and wife team Chris and Pat Bullivant who launched the country’s first free newspaper, The Banbury Focus, in 1970 and have since set up more than 50 others, including the country’s first free daily title, The Daily News, in Birmingham.

The Observer Standard group currently publishes 14 other predominately free newspapers. Its Standard Series covers Worcester, Droitwich, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Alcester, Stratford and Southam; its Advertiser series covers Hitchin, Stevenage and Biggleswade and its Observer Series covers Leamington, Kenilworth, Warwick and Rugby.

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