How did your paper perform in the latest ABC figures published today? Here’s the full list of UK regional dailies.
The figure is the average daily circulation for the six-month period January to June 2009, and its decrease as a percentage on the same period last year.
England
Dorset Echo 18,505, -1.1pc
Echo (Southend, Basildon, Castle Point) 33,854, -2.4pc
Northants Evening Telegraph (Kettering) 21,609, -2.8pc
Herald Express (Torquay) 23,193, -3.3pc
Northampton Chronicle and Echo 18,955, -4.4pc
Halifax Evening Courier 18,798, -4.5pc
Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) 60,579, -4.6pc
Swindon Advertiser 20,660, -5.4pc
Birmingham Post 12,076, -5.6pc
Cambridge News 24,970, -5.6pc
Shields Gazette 17,110, -5.7pc
Shropshire Star 66,442, -5.9pc
Yorkshire Post 44,690, -6.4pc
The Press (York) 30,722, -6.5pc
Express and Star (Wolverhampton/West Midlands) 128,836, -6.7pc
Oxford Mail 22,830, -6.8pc
Western Morning News (Plymouth/Devon) 36,869, -6.8pc
The Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) 56,609, -6.9pc
The Herald (Plymouth), 33,622, -7.2pc
Express and Echo (Exeter), 19,132, -7.2pc
Sunderland Echo 38,199, -7.2pc
The Northern Echo (Darlington) 46,729, -7.3pc
Gazette (Colchester), 19,656, -7.3pc
Southern Daily Echo (Southampton) 36,092, -7.4pc
Grimsby Telegraph 31,194, -7.4pc
The Journal (Newcastle) 31,817, -7.4pc
East Anglian Daily Times 31,485, -7.5pc
Daily Echo (Bournemouth) 29,687, -7.5pc
Lancashire Telegraph (Blackburn/Burnley) 27,481, -7.6pc
Lancashire Evening Post 27,429, -7.7pc
Hartlepool Mail 16,362, -7.9pc
Reading Evening Post 12,446, -8.1pc (switched to twice weekly in May)
The Gazette (Blackpool) 26,019, -8.2pc
Evening Telegraph (Peterborough) 16,523, -8.5pc
The Argus (Brighton) 29,006, -8.5pc
Lincolnshire Echo 19,720, -8.6pc
News and Star (Carlisle) 20,624, -8.8pc
North West Evening Mail (Barrow), 16,747, -8.9pc
Burton Mail 13,221, -8.9pc
Worcester News 15,975, -9.1pc
Huddersfield Daily Examiner 22,601, -9.1pc
Scunthorpe Telegraph 18,304, -9.1pc
The News (Portsmouth) 48,191, -9.3pc
Derby Telegraph, 37,896, -9.3pc
Wigan Evening Post 7,737, -9.5pc
Evening Gazette (Teesside), 45,641, -9.5pc
The Bolton News 26,064, -9.6pc
Hull Daily Mail 50,826, -9.7pc
Scarborough Evening News 12,062, -9.9pc
The Star (Sheffield) and Green ‘Un 45,233, -10pc
Leicester Mercury 62,161, -10pc
Liverpool Echo 92,093, -10.1pc
Telegraph and Argus (Bradford) 31,963, -10.2pc
Oldham Evening Chronicle 18,062, -10.4pc
Norwich Evening News 19,903, -10.5pc
Western Daily Press 36,085, -10.8pc
Bristol Evening Post 43,997, -10.9pc
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle) 63,872, -11.1pc
Coventry Telegraph 41,152, -11.1pc
The Citizen (Gloucester) 22,593, -12pc
Doncaster Star 3,263, -12.1pc
Gloucestershire Echo 18,097, -12.2pc
Evening Star (Ipswich) 16,882, -12.6pc
Nottingham Evening Post 47,958, -13.6pc
Yorkshire Evening Post 46,013, -13.6pc
Birmingham Mail 56,495, -14.6pc
Liverpool Daily Post 11,648, -18.4pc
Wales
Daily Post (North Wales) 33,938, -5.3pc
South Wales Argus (Newport) 26,667, -5.6pc
Evening Leader (Wrexham) 19,437, -8.1pc
South Wales Evening Post (Swansea) 46,069, -10.1pc
Western Mail (Cardiff) 32,926, -11.4pc
South Wales Echo (Cardiff) 39,361, -11.8pc
Scotland
Evening Express (Aberdeen) 51,800, -2.5pc
Press and Journal (Aberdeen) 77,006, -3.9pc
Evening Telegraph (Dundee) 23,180, -5.5pc
Paisley Daily Express 8,764, -5.7pc
Edinburgh Evening News 46,222, -6.1pc
The Courier and Advertiser (Dundee)
67,996, -6.2pc
Greenock Telegraph 15,965, -6.5pc
Evening Times (Glasgow)
63,803, -12pc
Northern Ireland
Irish News 46,800 -2.3pc
News Letter (Belfast) 25,250, -3.6pc
Belfast Telegraph 68,024, -10.5pc
Channel Islands
Guernsey Press & Star 15,586, -2.7pc
Jersey Evening Post 20,057, -4.9pc
Comments
Onlooker (27/08/2009 15:18:28)
God, what depressing figures. I used to live in Southampton when the Echo’s circulation was about 100,000. I know a lot of loyal pensioner readers have died since then but that doesn’t account for 64,000 readers turning their backs on their local paper.
It can’t go on like this. I expect in 10 years time papers like the Echo and all the others might exist only as websites.
What a terrible shame.
Sean Keeney (28/08/2009 11:15:10)
To be honest if all regional newspapers are as backward and unresponsive to their readers at the Gloucestershire Echo, they deserve to lose customers.
Can we have the full picture (28/08/2009 12:36:38)
It would be extremely interesting to see the actively purchased figure against the headline ABC – any chance of this, please, HTFP?
HTFP Editor (28/08/2009 12:46:20)
With 100s of paid-for UK daily/weekly papers in the ABCs, I’m afraid we don’t have the manpower to break up individual titles by how the papers are actually purchased by readers. Sorry – best bet is to contact ABC if you’d like to know specifics.
Murdoch’s right hand (28/08/2009 14:21:17)
Once upon a time readers paid for their newspapers and to read the stories. Time for newspapers to realise they can’t go on providing content on the internet for free and expect to address this slide.
Razor Sharp (18/11/2009 09:05:49)
If local papers like the North West Evening Mail keep diverting their ever-dwindling band of reporters into providing an all-singing all-dancing free website at the expense of an increasingly error-strewn and flimsy print product which looks like it’s been designed by monkeys with Attention Defecit Disorder, then the sad slow sales decline into obscurity will inevitably continue.