TheCounty Down Spectator and Ulster Standard is a weekly tabloid-sized newspaper based inBangor, County Down,Northern Ireland,UK. It generally serves the area covered by theNorth Down andArds council areas. It is published bySpectator Newspapers and comes in three versions, for Bangor,Newtownards andHolywood. From 1955 to 1983, the newspaper was edited byAnnie Roycroft, the first woman in Ireland to be the editor.
The Bangor edition serves Bangor and Groomsport.
The Newtownards edition was previously known as theNewtownards Spectator with a different logo. It serves Newtownards, Comber and theArds Peninsula.
The Holywood edition is an innovation, and is similar to the Bangor edition. Holywood stories had previously been covered in the Bangor edition.
In 2008, the newspaper won the prize for the Weekly Newspaper of the Year at the annualChartered Institute of Public Relations Press and Broadcast Awards for Northern Ireland.[1]
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