why don't you weigh one, on your kitchen scales, then multiply it by 50? A newspaper varies in size, the Sundays have all those supplements so would weigh a lot more - you need to take that into account.
Its not the effort spent by Arun District Council to put it on their website that grates, its the effrt a civil servant had to go to to find the answer in the first place.
Clearly must have been a slow day (week?, month?, year?) at the office there.
I can offer no comment on weight or otherwise of daily newspapers, but I can offer one observation, my cat when presented with his newspaper covered litter tray, his preference not mine, will invariably to do his business on the observer!!!
buildersmate, I reckon that would have taken all of three minutes to do. After that he would have been able to go back to calculating your council tax.