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10/12/2023: Front Page: As her life ebbed, Diana Rigg taped plea for assisted dying Diana Rigg made an impassioned case to legalise assisted dying in a message recorded shortly before her “truly awful” and “dehumanising” death from cancer three years ago. The actor’s statement calling for a law that gives “human beings true agency... 10/12/2023: Front Page: Labour steps up criticism of ‘intolerable’ killings in Gaza The Labour party today delivers its strongest criticism of Israel over its attacks on Palestinians, describing the death and destruction in Gaza over the past two months as “intolerable” and attacking two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers for...

PROFILE: The Observer is a British broadsheet Sunday newspaper. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. Founded in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. Profile extracted from Wikipedia and used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Circulation: 302,975 (April 2010)   Political Outlook: Centre-Left, Liberal   See our UK Newspaper Guide.