The Observer is to close three of its monthly magazines and become a four section paper as part of a redesign that will hit newsstands next year.

Guardian News & Media’s redesigned Sunday title will have four weekly sections – news, sport, an expanded Review section and the Observer magazine – and the award-winning glossy supplement Observer Food Monthly. The other three supplements, Observer Sport Monthly, Observer Music Monthly and Observer Woman, will close.

Business and personal finance coverage will move into the main news section of the paper, while travel coverage will be incorporated into the expanded Observer magazine. Steve Busfield, The Guardian.

Not before time, I can only describe Woman supplement as appalling and the others at best as dull even the “award winning” food supplement.