Circulation fell for all but two of Trinity Mirror’s dailies last month according to latest figures.
Monthly ABC figures for the group’s major titles show that only the Manchester Evening News and Newcastle Evening Chronicle among daily papers put on sales during September compared to the previous month.
The figures also showed that, when compared to the average monthly circulation between the period January to June as recorded in the last full set of ABC figures, all but one of the group’s daily and Sunday titles have lost sales.
The exception is Newcastle’s Sunday Sun, whose sales were up 1.6pc between August and September and up 4.76pc on the Janunary – June average.
Among the biggest fallers was Wales on Sunday, which although up 7.6pc on its August figure is down 13.13pc on the first six months of the year.
The South Wales Echo is down 8.58pc from the period January to June, the Coventry Telegraph down 7.16pc, the Teesside Evening Gazette down 6.94pc and The Journal, Newcastle, down 6.89pc.
The full figures can be seen below.
| Title | Sep-13 | Jan- Jun ABCs | % Change |
| Birmingham Mail | 39,324 | 40,280 | -2.37 |
| Coventry Telegraph | 25,727 | 27,712 | -7.16 |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 16,844 | 17,704 | -4.86 |
| Liverpool Echo | 71,691 | 74,984 | -4.39 |
| Manchester Evening News | 71,348 | 73,622 | -3.09 |
| Newcastle Evening Chronicle | 41,431 | 43,308 | -4.33 |
| North Wales Daily Post | 27,423 | 28,331 | -3.20 |
| South Wales Echo | 25,322 | 27,700 | -8.58 |
| Sunday Mercury | 31,639 | 31,982 | -1.07 |
| Sunday Sun | 39,379 | 37,588 | 4.76 |
| Teesside Evening Gazette | 30,721 | 33,013 | -6.94 |
| The Journal | 19,436 | 20,875 | -6.89 |
| Wales on Sunday | 20,341 | 23,416 | -13.13 |
| Western Mail | 22,228 | 23,723 | -6.30 |
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So where are the year-on-year figures? These are the only valid stats because of seasonal trends
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The end is nigh
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I’ll get the lights.
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When are the ABC figures for the country’s regional weeklies published? There’ll be some interesting ones to look for on there from certain newspaper publishers
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