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BRITAIN 1993: AN OFFICIAL HANDBOOK
Regional Newspapers
There are more than 100 morning, evening
and Sunday newspapers throughout Britain,
and nearly 1,600 weekly paid-for and free
distribution newspapers, publishing mainly
regional and local news. The morning
newspapers also cover national and
international affairs.
England
Of the morning papers the Yorkshire Post
(Leeds), the Northern Echo (Darlington) and
the Eastern Daily Press (Norwich), each has a
circulation of over 83,000, and two provincial
Sunday papers—the Sunday Sun (Newcastle
upon Tyne) and the Sunday Mercury
(Birmingham)—sell 117,800 and 151,900
copies respectively. Circulation figures of
evening papers start at about 10,000 and most
are in the 20,000 to 100,000 range. Those
with much larger sales include the Manchester
Evening News (241,300), Wolverhampton’s
Express and Star (228,000), the Birmingham
Evening Mail (203,500), and the Liverpool
Echo (184,000). Paid weekly papers have a
mainly local appeal and most have circulations
in the 5,000 to 60,000 range.
The weekly Berrow's Worcester Journal
claims to be the world’s oldest
newspaper in continuous circulation,
having been established in 1690.
London has one evening newspaper, the
Evening Standard, with a circulation of
528,700. It covers national and international
news as well as local affairs. A number of
evening newspapers are published in the
outer metropolitan area. Local weeklies
include papers for every district in Greater
London, often in the form of local editions of
an individual paper.
Wales
Wales has one daily morning newspaper, the
Western Mail, published in Cardiff, with a
circulation of 76,200 throughout Wales. In
north Wales the Daily Post, published in
Liverpool, gives wide coverage to events in
the area. Wales on Sunday, published in
Cardiff, has a circulation of 53,100. Evening
papers published in Wales are the South
Wales Echo, Cardiff; the South Wales Argus,
Newport; the South Wales Evening Post,
Swansea; and the Evening Leader, Wrexham.
Their circulation range is between 32,500 and
80,900. North Wales is also served by the
Liverpool Echo, and the Shropshire Star covers
parts of north and mid-Wales. There is also
coverage to a smaller extent by the
Manchester Evening News.
The weekly press (82 publications)
includes English-language papers, some of
which carry articles in Welsh; bilingual
papers; and Welsh-language papers. Welsh
community newspapers receive an annual
grant as part of the Government’s wider
financial support for the Welsh language.
Scotland
Scotland has six morning, six evening and
four Sunday newspapers. Local weekly
newspapers number 115. The daily morning
papers, with circulations of between 85,900
and 740,000, are The Scotsman (published in
Edinburgh); the Herald', the Daily Record
(sister paper of the Daily Mirror)', the Dundee
Courier and Advertiser, the Aberdeen Press and
Journal', the Scottish Daily Express (printed in
Manchester), and the Scottish edition of The
Sun. The daily evening papers have
circulations in the range of 10,400 to 164,330
and are the Evening News of Edinburgh,
Glasgow’s Evening Times, Dundee’s Evening
Telegraph, Aberdeen’s Evening Express, the
Paisley Daily Express and the Greenock
Telegraph.
The Sunday papers are the Sunday Mail,
the Sunday Post, the Scottish Sunday Express
(printed in Manchester) as well as a quality
broadsheet paper, Scotland on Sunday,
launched in 1988. The national Sunday
newspapers The Observer and The Sunday
Times carry Scottish supplements.
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland has two morning
newspapers, one evening and three Sunday
papers, all published in Belfast, with
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