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Providing Biggar and area with locally-sourced news since 1909. We publish a weekly issue both in print and digital format and offer a variety of other services for our customers.

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After Optimization

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Original 15.3 kB
After minification 15.3 kB
After compression 6.6 kB

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CSS Optimization

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Original 2.6 kB
After minification 2.6 kB
After compression 2.6 kB

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After Optimization

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