All but two UK regional dailies saw a year-on-year drop in circulation in the second half of 2012 according to the latest ABC figures.
Here’s the full list of how the regional dailies performed, in order of percentage sales increase.
| Ipswich Star | 16,783 | +8.5pc |
| Paisley Daily Express | 7,232 | +1.3pc |
| Guernsey Press & Star | 14,794 | -1.5pc |
| Press & Journal, Aberdeen | 66,679 | -1.6pc |
| Jersey Evening Post | 17,619 | -2.2pc |
| Irish News | 40,917 | -2.4pc |
| North Wales Daily Post | 29,577 | -3.4pc |
| Liverpool Echo | 77,849 | -4.5pc |
| Oxford Mail | 17,070 | -4.8pc |
| News Letter, Ulster | 21,475 | -4.8pc |
| Dorset Echo | 15,948 | -4.9pc |
| Swindon Advertiser | 16,259 | -5.2pc |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 18,241 | -5.2pc |
| Derby Telegraph | 29,010 | -5.6pc |
| Hull Daily Mail | 39,038 | -5.7pc |
| The Echo, Basildon, Southend and Castle Point | 28,335 | -5.8pc |
| Western Daily Press | 25,264 | -6pc |
| Cambridge News | 19,012 | -6pc |
| The Leader | 14,545 | -6.1pc |
| News and Star, Carlisle (West) | 4,235 | -6.2pc |
| Yorkshire Post | 35,940 | -6.4pc |
| Dundee Evening Telegraph | 21,444 | -6.4pc |
| Bournemouth Daily Echo | 24,122 | -6.5pc |
| News and Star, Carlisle (East) | 10,849 | -6.6pc |
| Burton Mail | 11,138 | -6.6pc |
| Worcester News | 12,664 | -6.7pc |
| Gloucestershire Echo | 14,111 | -6.8pc |
| South Wales Echo | 28,893 | -6.8pc |
| Aberdeen Evening Express | 40,722 | -7.5pc |
| Western Morning News | 29,227 | -7.6pc |
| The Northern Echo | 36,740 | -7.7pc |
| South Wales Argus | 20,589 | -7.7pc |
| Belfast Telegraph | 49,530 | -7.9pc |
| Evening Gazette | 35,511 | -8pc |
| Grimsby Telegraph | 22,343 | -8.2pc |
| Greenock Telegraph | 12,773 | -8.2pc |
| North West Evening Mail | 12,281 | -8.4pc |
| The Press, York | 23,007 | -8.8pc |
| The Herald, Plymouth | 25,776 | -8.9pc |
| The Sentinel | 43,814 | -9pc |
| South Wales Evening Post | 34,873 | -9.1pc |
| Shropshire Star | 46,489 | -9.3pc |
| The Journal, Newcastle | 21,851 | -9.4pc |
| The Bolton News | 18,620 | -9.5pc |
| Lancashire Telegraph | 20,076 | -9.5pc |
| Southern Daily Echo | 28,049 | -9.6pc |
| Birmingham Mail | 40,004 | -9.8pc |
| Colchester Gazette | 14,071 | -9.9pc |
| Bradford Telegraph & Argus | 22,915 | -9.9pc |
| Express & Star | 93,799 | -10pc |
| The Citizen | 17,137 | -10.2pc |
| Coventry Telegraph | 29,266 | -10.3pc |
| Yorkshire Evening Post | 31,198 | -10.5pc |
| Shields Gazette | 12,646 | -10.7pc |
| Newcastle Evening Chronicle | 45,225 | -10.9pc |
| Sheffield Star & Green ‘Un | 31,992 | -10.9pc |
| Dundee Courier & Advertiser | 53,243 | -10.9pc |
| The Western Mail | 23,035 | -11.1pc |
| The Post, Bristol | 32,214 | -11.2pc |
| The News, Portsmouth | 34,960 | -11.3pc |
| Eastern Daily Press | 49,247 | -11.4pc |
| Manchester Evening News | 74,702 | -11.6pc |
| Oldham Evening Chronicle | 12,019 | -11.9pc |
| Sunday Life | 47,584 | -11.9pc |
| Sunderland Echo & Football Echo | 26,702 | -12.9pc |
| Leicester Mercury | 42,056 | -13.2pc |
| Glasgow Evening Times | 42,432 | -13.6pc |
| Edinburgh Evening News | 32,160 | -13.7pc |
| Hartlepool Mail | 11,473 | -14.3pc |
| Nottingham Post | 29,085 | -14.3pc |
| East Anglian Daily Times | 25,294 | -15pc |
| Lancashire Evening Post | 18,705 | -15.3pc |
| Wigan Evening Post | 5,719 | -15.3pc |
| The Gazette, Blackpool | 17,678 | -16.4pc |
| Sunday Journal | 2,125 | -16.9pc |
| Norwich Evening News | 13,322 | -19.3pc |
| Doncaster Star | 1,703 | -19.3pc |
| The Argus, Brighton | 19,199 | -19.6pc |
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The game’s up.
These figures are truly, truly dreadful, and the weeklies are even worse.
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The rate the Doncaster Star is going it will soon be defunct.
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