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Tuesday November 10, 2009 by Music Week

The Observer Music Monthly is to close next year as part of a redesign of the Sunday paper.

Under the plans, the re-designed Observer will have four weekly sections – news, sport, review and The Observer magazine – as well as the Observer Food Monthly. Observer Music Monthly, Sport Monthly and Woman will all close.

The Observer editor John Mulholland tells Media Guardian, “Like all newspapers, we had to make changes both to the way we work and to the products we publish. It has been a difficult few months for staff while we have worked through these changes as part of GNM's publishing review, and some hard decisions had to be taken given the extremely challenging economic environment for newspapers."

The news comes against a backdrop of heavy losses at the Observer parent company Guardian News & Media.