The Norwich Evening News topped the UK regional newspaper circulation league table for the third time in succession today by posting a 7.5pc increase, although only 80pc of its copies were direct sales.
Excluding bulks, the Western Morning News, which sells 99.6 of its copies, appears to be the best performing daily title in sales terms with a 1pc decline.
Most of the titles listed below are classified by the ABC as at least 95pc paid-for. The exceptions are the Manchester Evening News (67.1pc), Belfast Telegraph (79.5pc), Ipswich Star (80pc), Norwich Evening News (81.3pc), Liverpool Daily Post (81.4pc), East Anglian Daily Times (89.2pc), Eastern Daily Press (89.5pc), Cambridge News (89.8pc) and Coventry Telegraph (94pc).
The Lincolnshire Echo, Torquay Herald Express, Exeter Express & Echo and Scunthorpe Telegraph are still included in this list as they were daily titles for part of the period under review. They have since moved to weekly publication and are also included in the weeklies’ list. The LDP has also now gone weekly but was a daily for the whole of the period under review.
Here is the full list of UK regional dailies, ranked in order of the average percentage increase or decrease between the period Jul-Dec 2010 and Jul-Dec 2011.
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| Norwich Evening News | 18,931 | 7.5% |
| Eastern Daily Press | 59,802 | 0.7% |
| Ipswich Evening Star | 15,471 | 0.4% |
| East Anglian Daily Times | 29,772 | 0.3% |
| Sunday Life | 54,004 | -0.8% |
| Western Morning News | 31,642 | -1.0% |
| Guernsey Press & Star | 15,022 | -1.4% |
| Sunday Journal | 2,557 | -1.6% |
| Dundee Evening Telegraph | 22,904 | -1.8% |
| The Echo, Basildon/Southend | 30,074 | -2.9% |
| Cambridge News | 20,234 | -3.2% |
| Peterborough Evening Telegraph | 14,883 | -4.0% |
| Daily Post North Wales | 30,606 | -4.2% |
| Burton Mail | 11,926 | -4.4% |
| Yorkshire Post | 38,411 | -4.4% |
| Dorset Echo | 16,772 | -4.5% |
| Northampton Chronicle & Echo | 15,913 | -4.6% |
| Jersey Evening Post | 18,011 | -4.6% |
| News Letter, Belfast | 22,548 | -4.7% |
| The Press, York | 25,226 | -4.9% |
| Teesside Evening Gazette | 38,606 | -5.0% |
| Dundee Courier & Advertiser | 59,754 | -5.2% |
| Irish News | 41,932 | -5.2% |
| Greenock Telegraph | 13,913 | -5.5% |
| Wigan Evening Post | 6,754 | -5.6% |
| The Western Mail | 25,898 | -5.8% |
| Southern Daily Echo | 31,038 | -6.0% |
| Lincolnshire Echo | 16,611 | -6.0% |
| South Wales Argus | 22,314 | -6.0% |
| The Northern Echo | 39,815 | -6.1% |
| Swindon Advertiser | 17,155 | -6.2% |
| Torquay Herald Express | 19,784 | -6.3% |
| Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph | 17,857 | -6.3% |
| South Wales Evening Post | 38,364 | -6.4% |
| Liverpool Echo | 81,506 | -6.5% |
| The Argus, Brighton | 23,874 | -6.6% |
| The Herald, Plymouth | 28,303 | -6.7% |
| The Sentinel, Stoke | 48,155 | -6.9% |
| Hull Daily Mail | 41,406 | -6.9% |
| Press & Journal, Aberdeen | 67,781 | -6.9% |
| Worcester News | 13,577 | -7.1% |
| Lancashire Evening Post | 22,079 | -7.1% |
| Scarborough Evening News | 10,637 | -7.2% |
| Shields Gazette | 14,164 | -7.3% |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 19,249 | -7.3% |
| Daily Echo, Bournemouth | 25,811 | -7.4% |
| Sheffield Star & Green ‘Un | 35,919 | -7.4% |
| Derby Telegraph | 30,715 | -7.5% |
| Newcastle Evening Chronicle | 50,748 | -7.5% |
| Gloucestershire Echo | 15,139 | -7.6% |
| Paisley Daily Express | 7,137 | -7.6% |
| The News & Sports Mail, Portsmouth | 39,432 | -7.9% |
| Bradford Telegraph & Argus | 25,443 | -7.9% |
| Halifax Courier | 15,046 | -8.0% |
| South Wales Echo | 31,009 | -8.1% |
| Belfast Telegraph | 53,771 | -8.1% |
| The Citizen | 19,094 | -8.2% |
| Coventry Telegraph | 32,619 | -8.3% |
| News and Star, Carlisle (West) | 4,516 | -8.4% |
| Exeter Express & Echo | 15,669 | -8.4% |
| Birmingham Mail | 44,330 | -8.9% |
| The Gazette, Blackpool | 21,156 | -9.1% |
| Bristol Evening Post | 36,262 | -9.2% |
| Colchester Gazette | 15,613 | -9.2% |
| Oxford Mail | 17,929 | -9.2% |
| North West Evening Mail | 13,400 | -9.3% |
| Western Daily Press | 26,863 | -9.4% |
| Lancashire Telegraph | 22,185 | -9.4% |
| Manchester Evening News | 84,462 | -9.5% |
| Glasgow Evening Times | 49,096 | -9.5% |
| Grimsby Telegraph | 24,346 | -9.6% |
| Hartlepool Mail | 13,387 | -9.9% |
| News and Star, Carlisle (East) | 11,621 | -10.2% |
| The Bolton News | 20,571 | -10.2% |
| Sunderland Echo & Football Echo | 30,654 | -10.3% |
| Leicester Mercury | 48,457 | -10.4% |
| Scunthorpe Telegraph | 14,414 | -10.4% |
| Aberdeen Evening Express | 44,038 | -10.6% |
| Oldham Evening Chronicle | 13,640 | -10.7% |
| Express & Star | 104,262 | -10.9% |
| Yorkshire Evening Post | 34,851 | -10.9% |
| Edinburgh Evening News | 37,250 | -11.2% |
| The Journal | 24,106 | -11.3% |
| The Leader (North Wales & Chester) | 15,497 | -11.6% |
| Shropshire Star | 51,240 | -11.8% |
| Liverpool Daily Post | 7,652 | -13.7% |
| Doncaster Star | 2,111 | -15.1% |
| Nottingham Post | 33,940 | -17.2% |
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Treat the figures cautiously. I’m reliably informed that one of the papers listed above is selling about 5,000 less than stated
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