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Breakdown of UK daily newspaper circulation, 1956 to 2019. At the start of the 19th century, the highest-circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom was the Morning Post, which sold around 4,000 copies per day, twice the sales of its nearest rival. As production methods improved, print runs increased and newspapers were sold at lower prices.
The library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801.
This letterpress mode of newspaper production was supplanted in the 1970s and 1980s by the cleaner, more economical offset litho process. The history of British newspapers begins in the 17th century with the emergence of regular publications covering news and gossip. The relaxation of government censorship in the late 17th century led to a rise ...
Nigel Dempster. Nigel Richard Patton Dempster (1 November 1941 in Calcutta, India – 12 July 2007 in Ham, Surrey) was a British journalist. Best known for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers, his work appeared in the Daily Express and Daily Mail and also in Private Eye magazine. At his death, the editor of the Daily Mail Paul Dacre was ...
The Daily News. The Daily News was a national daily newspaper in the United Kingdom published from 1846 to 1930. The News was founded in 1846 by Charles Dickens, who also served as the newspaper's first editor. It was conceived as a radical rival to the right-wing Morning Chronicle. The paper was not at first a commercial success.
The Edinburgh Evening News is a daily newspaper and website based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded by John Wilson (1844–1909) and first published in 1873. [2] It is printed daily, except on Sundays. It is owned by National World, which also owns The Scotsman . Much of the content of the Evening News concerns local issues such as ...
2056-6131. Website. www .gazettelive .co .uk. The Gazette Building in Middlesbrough, England. TeessideLive is a regional news website serving the Teesside area of England. The website feeds The Gazette daily newspaper and the Sunday Sun, England’s best-selling regional Sunday newspaper. [2] Formerly known as Teesside Gazette, the website ...
2632-1165. Website. pressandjournal .co .uk. The Press and Journal is a daily regional newspaper serving northern and Highland Scotland including the cities of Aberdeen and Inverness. Established in 1747, it is Scotland's oldest daily newspaper, [ 2 ] and one of the longest-running newspapers in the world. [ 3 ]