It ran for 2,397 weekly issues before being merged with Look and Learn in 1965.

The last weekly issue was published on Dec. 31, 2003.

The newspaper was first published on 1 December 1971, with three weekly issues.

The original series ran until 1991 - 1,348 weekly issues.

Each weekly issue consisted of four pages, printed six columns wide.

During half of its 34-year life, the magazine was popular enough to support weekly issues.

In the initial few years, one could purchase the covers at the end of the publishing year and have the weekly issues bound.

Each weekly issue reaches news vendors and subscribers on Friday mornings.

Wartime paper shortages reduced the length of each weekly issue.

Currently, it is one of a very few student newspapers that continues to run weekly issues during the summer.