Three of Trinity Mirror’s four regional Sunday titles posted circulation increases in July compared to the previous months, according to ABC figures published today.
The Sunday Sun, Newcastle, Sunday Mercury, Birmingham and Liverpool Sunday Echo all saw their sales rise last month.
Best-performing title was the Sunday Echo, with a 15.6pc month-on-month increase, followed the Sunday Sun with 10pc and the Sunday Mercury with 2.6pc.
However the group’s fourth Sunday title, Wales on Sunday, saw its sales fall month-on-month by 5.3pc.
All the group’s major regional titles continued to post year-on-year sales declines, with Wales on Sunday down 32.9pc and the South Wales Echo down 19.2pc.
The part-free, part paid-for Manchester Evening News continued to be the group’s best-performing title, with circulation down 3pc year-on-year in July.
This month’s figures also included separate figures for sale of digital editions, with all titles except the MEN showing a month-on-month increase.
Best-performing digital title in the group is the Liverpool Echo which currently sells an average of 546 digital editions monthly.
The full figures are as follows:
| Title | Jul-14 | Jul-13 | Change |
| Birmingham Mail | 34,798 | 40,274 | -13.6 |
| Coventry Telegraph | 23,343 | 26,774 | -12.8 |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 15,447 | 17,027 | -9.3 |
| Liverpool Echo | 64,785 | 72,491 | -10.6 |
| Liverpool Sunday Echo | 25,047 | 0.00 | |
| Manchester Evening News | 69,145 | 71,319 | -3.0 |
| Newcastle Chronicle | 36,295 | 41,061 | -11.6 |
| North Wales Daily Post | 26,225 | 27,469 | -4.5 |
| South Wales Echo | 21,177 | 26,211 | -19.2 |
| Sunday Mercury | 24,925 | 30,460 | -18.2 |
| Sunday Sun | 33,236 | 38,160 | -12.9 |
| Teesside Evening Gazette | 27,019 | 30,880 | -12.5 |
| The Journal | 17,234 | 19,737 | -12.7 |
| Wales on Sunday | 14,818 | 22,069 | -32.9 |
| Western Mail | 21,127 | 23,365 | -9.6 |
The full figures for digital editions are:
| Title | Jul-14 | Jun 14 | Change |
| Coventry Telegraph | 125 | 122 | 2.5 |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 208 | 191 | 8.9 |
| Liverpool Echo | 557 | 546 | 2.0 |
| Manchester Evening News | 349 | 351 | -0.6 |
| Newcastle Chronicle | 245 | 241 | 1.7 |
| North Wales Daily Post | 303 | 296 | 2.4 |
| South Wales Echo | 191 | 186 | 2.7 |
| Teesside Evening Gazette | 169 | 165 | 2.4 |
| Western Mail | 359 | 352 | 2.0 |
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And, any news on the sales figures for the much trumpeted new kid on the block, the Western Morning News on Sunday? #MIA
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