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How many newspapers are sold in the UK?

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How many newspapers are sold in the UK?

The 68 English regional dailies (mornings and evenings) together sell 2,085,116. The nine Scottish dailies sell 735,002; the six Welsh sell 183,131; and the three Northern Ireland titles sell 137,230.

How many newspapers are bought?

In 2005, UK households purchased approximately 4.45 billion British pounds worth of newspapers, whilst in 2020 this number dropped to around 2.8 billion British pounds.

What is the UK’s biggest selling newspaper?

The Sun
The leading newspaper in terms of overall reach in the United Kingdom from April 2019 to March 2020 was The Sun. The tabloid newspaper, which has been embroiled in numerous controversies over the years, had a combined reach from its print editions and website of just over 38 million from April 2019 to March 2020.

Is the sun still sold in the UK?

It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. The Sun previously had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United Kingdom but it was overtaken by rival Metro in March 2018.

Which newspapers is no longer sold in UK?

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  • Aberdeen Citizen.
  • Aberystwyth Times.
  • The Adventurer (newspaper)
  • The Aegis (weekly newspaper)
  • Anti-Jacobin.
  • The Athenian Mercury.
  • Athletic News.
  • The Atlas (newspaper)

How many newspapers do the sun sell a day?

2020 to present

Title 2021 2020
The Sun N/A 1,250,634
Daily Mail 960,019 1,169,241
Evening Standard 489,405 798,168
Daily Mirror 366,501 451,466

Is The Times sold in the UK?

The Times and The Sunday Times have had an online presence since March 1999, originally at the-times.co.uk and sunday-times.co.uk, and later at timesonline.co.uk. There are now two websites: thetimes.co.uk is aimed at daily readers, and the thesundaytimes.co.uk site at providing weekly magazine-like content.

Does anyone read newspapers anymore?

In recent years, newspapers’ weekday circulation has fallen 7% and Sunday circulation 4% in the United States, their greatest declines since 2010. Overall, the industry continues to shrink, with Editor & Publisher’s DataBook listing 126 fewer daily papers in 2014 than in 2004.