Lincolnshire Standard

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The Lincolnshire Standard was a weekly newspaper published in Boston, England,{{cite book|author=NA NA|title=The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978-79|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ot-vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA409|date=25 December 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-81511-1|pages=409–}} attached to Lincolnshire Standard Ltd.{{cite web|url= https://www.loc.gov/item/sn88063206/ |title= Lincolnshire Standard| publisher= Library of Congress |accessdate= 2019-07-20}}

Founded in the 19th century, it is now published under the title Boston Standard. Its sister titles include the Sleaford Standard, Skegness Standard, Grantham Journal and Horncastle News.

On 26 March 1958 the Boston Guardian, which was established in 1854,{{cite book|author=William White|title=History, gazetteer, and directory, of Lincolnshire, and the city & diocese of Lincoln|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=puAHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA170|year=1882|publisher=White|pages=170–}} merged with the Lincolnshire Standard.{{cite book|author=Christopher Robin Rowlands|title=Newspaper Invasion of Privacy: Great Britain's Search for a Solution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zIlJAQAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=University of California, Berkeley}}

Lincolnshire Standard officially ceased publication on 28 March 1958.

This is misleading as the Lincolnshire Standard continued to be published into the 1970[s at least.