The County Down Spectator and Ulster Standard is a weekly tabloid-sized newspaper based in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK.
It is published by Spectator Newspapers and comes in three versions, for Bangor, Newtownards and Holywood.
From 1955 to 1983, the newspaper was edited by Annie Roycroft, the first woman in Ireland to be the editor.
Holywood stories had previously been covered in the Bangor edition.
In 2008, the newspaper won the prize for the Weekly Newspaper of the Year at the annual Chartered Institute of Public Relations Press and Broadcast Awards for Northern Ireland.