Only three paid-for weeklies experienced a year-on-year increase in average circulation in the period July to December 2014, according to today’s ABC figures.
The Goole Times (incorporating the Selby Times) saw a rise of more than three quarters to 15,045 compared to the same period in 2013.
However the previous set of figures did not include sales of the Selby Times, which was sold by Johnston Press to Goole Times owner Chronicle Publications Ltd in summer 2013.
As reported by HTFP Glasgow’s Sunday Herald saw a 34.7pc increase compared to the same period in 2013, while the only other paid-for weekly to post an increase was the South Shropshire Journal, whose circulation of 6,564 was up 1.3pc.
Northern Ireland’s Sunday Life had the biggest paid-for weekly circulation at 42,239, a 7.6pc decline on the previous year, followed by Newcastle’s Sunday Sun at 30,725, a 9.9pc drop.
The Kent Messenger had the third highest sales figures at 29,412, down 7.5pc on the previous year.
Titles which saw the biggest decrease included the Target series in Lincolnshire which recently moved from a part-free, part paid-for distribution model to 100pc paid-for.
Publisher Local World said that when free copies from the previous period are excluded, the titles’ circulation was up 32.8pc year-on-year, although this will not show up until the next set of ABC figures in August.
Here are the figures for all weekly paid-for titles ranked by order of year-on-year circulation change.
Figures for free weeklies can be found in the table underneath.
Total | Y-on-Y% | % Paid for | |
Goole Times (Incorporating Selby Times) | 15,045 | 75.3 | 100 |
Sunday Herald | 32,204 | 34.7 | 100 |
South Shropshire Journal | 6,564 | 1.3 | 100 |
Birmingham Post | 7,948 | -0.1 | 52.8 |
Herne Bay Gazette | 2,041 | -1 | 100 |
Newport Advertiser | 6,023 | -1.1 | 100 |
Faversham News | 2,149 | -1.7 | 100 |
Stirling Observer (Fri) | 2,506 | -1.7 | 100 |
Fermanagh Herald | 11,607 | -1.9 | 100 |
Arran Banner | 2,962 | -2.1 | 100 |
County Derry Post | 4,373 | -2.3 | 100 |
Border Telegraph | 3,354 | -2.4 | 100 |
Witney Gazette | 5,949 | -2.8 | 100 |
Ilkley Gazette | 3,815 | -2.9 | 100 |
Romsey Advertiser | 6,174 | -2.9 | 100 |
Campbeltown Courier and Argyllshire Advertiser | 5,865 | -3.2 | 100 |
Folkestone and Hythe Express | 1,919 | -3.2 | 100 |
Wharfedale and Aireborough Observer | 3,017 | -3.4 | 100 |
East Kent Mercury | 9,358 | -3.6 | 100 |
Annandale Herald and Moffat News | 3,430 | -3.7 | 100 |
Ayrshire Post | 17,016 | -3.7 | 100 |
Packet Newspapers – Helston | 1,751 | -3.7 | 100 |
Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard | 9,267 | -3.8 | 100 |
Retford Times | 6,616 | -4 | 100 |
Mid Somerset Gazette | 7,308 | -4.1 | 100 |
Annandale Observer | 5,038 | -4.2 | 100 |
Peeblesshire News | 3,981 | -4.2 | 100 |
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald | 14,686 | -4.3 | 99.9 |
Dumfries and Galloway Standard (Wed) | 6,376 | -4.3 | 100 |
North Norfolk News | 5,934 | -4.3 | 100 |
Stranraer and Wigtownshire Free Press | 6,408 | -4.3 | 100 |
Harwich and Manningtree Standard | 5,391 | -4.4 | 100 |
Strathspey and Badenoch Herald | 3,785 | -4.4 | 100 |
Banbridge Chronicle | 3,573 | -4.6 | 100 |
Bridgnorth Journal | 6,094 | -4.6 | 100 |
Weston, Worle and Somerset Mercury | 13,326 | -4.6 | 96.2 |
Leek Post and Times | 9,758 | -4.8 | 100 |
Strabane Chronicle | 4,491 | -4.8 | 100 |
Surrey Mirror | 9,368 | -4.8 | 100 |
Exmouth Journal | 7,075 | -4.9 | 92.8 |
Newry Reporter | 9,128 | -4.9 | 100 |
Lincolnshire Echo | 18,684 | -5.1 | 99.8 |
West Highland Free Press | 7,152 | -5.1 | 100 |
Impartial Reporter | 12,134 | -5.2 | 100 |
Mid Somerset Journal | 7,258 | -5.2 | 100 |
Dumfries and Galloway Standard (Fri) | 10,928 | -5.3 | 100 |
Strathearn Herald | 1,521 | -5.3 | 100 |
Cumberland News | 21,368 | -5.4 | 100 |
New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times | 17,572 | -5.4 | 100 |
The Galloway News | 6,067 | -5.4 | 100 |
Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser | 7,635 | -5.5 | 100 |
Keighley News | 9,013 | -5.5 | 100 |
Maidenhead Advertiser | 16,294 | -5.5 | 74.8 |
Scunthorpe Telegraph | 17,403 | -5.5 | 100 |
Great Yarmouth Mercury | 12,923 | -5.6 | 100 |
Hampshire Chronicle | 9,283 | -5.6 | 100 |
Brentwood Gazette | 11,397 | -5.7 | 72.2 |
Prestwich and Whitefield Guide | 1,614 | -5.7 | 100 |
Stirling Observer (Wed) | 5,835 | -5.7 | 100 |
Ulster Herald | 10,524 | -5.7 | 100 |
West Cumberland Times and Star | 12,208 | -5.7 | 100 |
Cardigan and Tivy-Side Advertiser | 5,714 | -5.9 | 100 |
Craven Herald and Pioneer | 10,821 | -5.9 | 100 |
Newbury Weekly News | 14,986 | -5.9 | 100 |
Derry News – Thursday | 4,715 | -6 | 100 |
Hexham Courant | 12,560 | -6 | 100 |
Blairgowrie Advertiser | 1,588 | -6.1 | 100 |
Clacton Gazette | 12,227 | -6.1 | 100 |
The Watford Observer | 12,213 | -6.1 | 91.8 |
Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News | 2,425 | -6.2 | 100 |
Dereham and Fakenham Times | 5,415 | -6.2 | 100 |
Isle of Wight County Press | 28,413 | -6.2 | 100 |
Derry News – Monday | 4,869 | -6.3 | 100 |
Irvine Times | 2,508 | -6.3 | 100 |
Sittingbourne News Extra | 4,964 | -6.3 | 100 |
Penarth Times | 4,132 | -6.4 | 100 |
Sidmouth Herald | 5,730 | -6.4 | 96.5 |
Darlington and Stockton Times | 18,743 | -6.6 | 100 |
East Lothian Courier | 10,960 | -6.6 | 100 |
Isle of Thanet Gazette | 9,988 | -6.6 | 100 |
Kentish Gazette | 9,141 | -6.6 | 100 |
Helensburgh Advertiser | 4,460 | -6.7 | 100 |
Essex County Standard | 12,597 | -6.8 | 100 |
Gravesend and Dartford Messenger | 4,607 | -6.9 | 100 |
Halstead Gazette | 3,828 | -6.9 | 100 |
Oban Times | 12,612 | -6.9 | 100 |
Sheerness Times Guardian | 5,978 | -6.9 | 100 |
Bicester Advertiser | 3,288 | -7.1 | 100 |
Knutsford Guardian | 3,763 | -7.1 | 100 |
Largs and Millport Weekly News | 4,033 | -7.2 | 100 |
Westmorland Gazette | 21,093 | -7.2 | 100 |
The Mid Devon Gazette | 8,241 | -7.3 | 100 |
Dover Express | 5,798 | -7.4 | 100 |
Inverness Courier (Fri) | 10,627 | -7.4 | 100 |
Rotherham and South Yorkshire Advertiser | 22,658 | -7.4 | 100 |
Cornishman | 13,011 | -7.5 | 100 |
Epping Forest Guardian | 5,035 | -7.5 | 78.1 |
Kent and Sussex Courier | 20,754 | -7.5 | 98.9 |
Kent Messenger | 29,412 | -7.5 | 100 |
Maldon and Burnham Standard | 5,990 | -7.6 | 100 |
Reading Chronicle | 5,528 | -7.6 | 78.5 |
Sunday Life | 42,239 | -7.6 | 98.6 |
Wishaw Press | 5,223 | -7.6 | 100 |
Highland News | 5,474 | -7.7 | 100 |
Forres Gazette | 2,588 | -7.8 | 100 |
Tyrone Herald | 5,542 | -7.8 | 100 |
Uttoxeter Post and Times | 2,244 | -7.8 | 100 |
Bucks Free Press | 14,312 | -7.9 | 85.7 |
South Wales Guardian | 4,824 | -7.9 | 100 |
Alloa and Hillfoots Advertiser | 6,491 | -8.2 | 100 |
Lowestoft Journal | 12,085 | -8.2 | 100 |
Barry and District News | 3,929 | -8.3 | 100 |
Frome Standard | 4,939 | -8.3 | 100 |
Andersonstown News | 9,287 | -8.4 | 100 |
Inverness Courier (Tue) | 7,525 | -8.4 | 100 |
Western Gazette | 19,724 | -8.6 | 98.7 |
Bath Chronicle | 13,141 | -8.8 | 95.8 |
Kilmarnock Standard (Ayrshire Weekly News and Irvine Valley News) | 10,693 | -8.8 | 100 |
Carmarthen Journal | 12,488 | -8.9 | 100 |
Slough Eton and Windsor Observer | 5,233 | -9 | 78 |
Ayr Advertiser | 2,853 | -9.1 | 100 |
Banffshire Journal | 3,657 | -9.1 | 100 |
Ludlow Advertiser | 3,583 | -9.1 | 100 |
Northern Scot | 12,004 | -9.1 | 100 |
West Briton | 24,871 | -9.1 | 100 |
Barnsley Chronicle | 27,708 | -9.2 | 100 |
Bridport News | 7,065 | -9.2 | 100 |
Essex Chronicle | 21,187 | -9.2 | 98.6 |
Sevenoaks Chronicle.co.uk | 8,264 | -9.2 | 100 |
Yorkshire – Gazette and Herald | 8,556 | -9.2 | 100 |
Hinckley Times | 10,208 | -9.3 | 100 |
Stroud News and Journal | 8,594 | -9.3 | 100 |
Beccles and Bungay Journal | 4,755 | -9.4 | 100 |
Tamworth Herald | 15,297 | -9.4 | 100 |
Bracknell News | 2,804 | -9.5 | 76.8 |
Crewe Chronicle | 10,337 | -9.5 | 100 |
Perthshire Advertiser (Fri) | 8,516 | -9.5 | 100 |
Chard and Ilminster News | 4,513 | -9.6 | 100 |
Dunfermline Press and West of Fife Advertiser | 12,389 | -9.6 | 99.9 |
Somerset Guardian | 5,599 | -9.6 | 100 |
Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser | 9,447 | -9.7 | 100 |
Hereford Times | 23,022 | -9.7 | 100 |
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald | 8,346 | -9.8 | 100 |
Braintree and Witham Times | 8,809 | -9.9 | 100 |
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Sunday Sun | 30,725 | -9.9 | 100 |
North Wales Weekly News | 9,533 | -9.9 | 100 |
Gloucestershire County Gazette | 9,725 | -10 | 100 |
John O’Groat Journal | 6,096 | -10 | 100 |
Exeter – Express and Echo | 17,070 | -10.1 | 100 |
Waltham Forest Guardian | 4,315 | -10.1 | 96.1 |
Central Fife Times and Advertiser | 4,240 | -10.2 | 100 |
Llanelli Star | 9,943 | -10.2 | 100 |
Cornish Guardian | 19,198 | -10.3 | 100 |
Lochaber News | 2,369 | -10.3 | 100 |
Surrey Advertiser | 18,235 | -10.3 | 100 |
Gazette and Herald | 14,691 | -10.5 | 100 |
Salisbury Journal | 16,183 | -10.5 | 100 |
Whitehaven News | 10,471 | -10.6 | 100 |
Lennox Herald | 7,139 | -10.7 | 100 |
The Oxford Times | 10,227 | -10.7 | 100 |
Rutherglen Reformer | 2,530 | -10.8 | 100 |
Free Press – Monmouth | 4,475 | -10.9 | 100 |
Loughborough Echo | 12,849 | -10.9 | 100 |
Bridgwater Mercury | 8,922 | -11 | 100 |
Malvern Gazette | 10,533 | -11 | 100 |
North Devon Journal | 20,372 | -11 | 100 |
Cumnock Chronicle | 4,939 | -11.1 | 100 |
Aldershot News and Mail | 7,502 | -11.2 | 100 |
Caithness Courier | 4,653 | -11.3 | 100 |
Packet Newspapers – Falmouth | 4,603 | -11.4 | 100 |
Guardian (Northwich, Winsford and Middlewich) | 10,567 | -11.5 | 100 |
Northern Times | 3,410 | -11.5 | 100 |
Rochdale Observer (Sat) | 11,698 | -11.6 | 100 |
Andover Advertiser | 9,050 | -11.7 | 100 |
Hamilton Advertiser | 12,553 | -11.8 | 100 |
The Herald | 8,307 | -11.8 | 100 |
Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News | 7,851 | -11.9 | 100 |
Wiltshire Times | 9,548 | -11.9 | 100 |
Basingstoke Gazette | 10,271 | -12 | 100 |
Ross-shire Journal | 6,024 | -12 | 100 |
Perthshire Advertiser (Tue) | 4,107 | -12.2 | 100 |
Torquay – Herald Express | 21,530 | -12.2 | 99.9 |
Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald | 8,023 | -12.4 | 100 |
Kentish Express | 11,183 | -12.4 | 100 |
The West Lothian Courier | 8,513 | -12.4 | 100 |
Western Telegraph | 13,806 | -12.4 | 100 |
Heywood Advertiser | 3,070 | -12.6 | 100 |
Accrington Observer | 7,595 | -12.8 | 100 |
Macclesfield Express | 8,806 | -12.9 | 100 |
North Star | 2,985 | -12.9 | 100 |
Southport Visiter | 6,798 | -12.9 | 100 |
Wilts and Glos Standard | 8,115 | -12.9 | 100 |
Medway Messenger (Monday) | 5,643 | -13 | 100 |
Bucks Advertiser and Examiner | 7,247 | -13.2 | 100 |
East Kilbride News | 6,762 | -13.3 | 100 |
Bury Times | 11,383 | -13.4 | 100 |
Rossendale Free Press | 7,913 | -13.4 | 100 |
North Belfast News | 3,322 | -13.5 | 100 |
Somerset County Gazette | 16,392 | -13.5 | 100 |
Hertfordshire Mercury | 15,427 | -13.6 | 100 |
Stockport Express | 8,357 | -14 | 100 |
Irvine Herald and Kilwinning Chronicle | 5,099 | -14.3 | 100 |
Rochdale Observer (Wed) | 7,068 | -14.3 | 100 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette | 4,292 | -14.4 | 98.1 |
Holyhead and Bangor Mail | 6,441 | -14.5 | 100 |
Warrington Guardian | 17,104 | -14.7 | 100 |
Herts and Essex Observer | 9,564 | -15 | 100 |
Sunday Mercury | 24,223 | -15.1 | 91.3 |
Wales on Sunday | 16,238 | -15.1 | 100 |
Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter | 2,429 | -15.3 | 100 |
Chester Chronicle | 12,064 | -15.7 | 100 |
Scotland on Sunday | 27,533 | -16.1 | 99.6 |
Welwyn Hatfield Times | 8,662 | -16.7 | 100 |
Middleton and North Manchester Guardian | 3,655 | -16.9 | 100 |
Clydebank Post | 5,771 | -17.2 | 100 |
Ormskirk Advertiser | 3,908 | -17.5 | 100 |
Rhondda Leader | 4,342 | -18.9 | 100 |
Glamorgan Gazette | 9,094 | -19.6 | 100 |
Gwent Gazette | 2,880 | -20.2 | 100 |
Merthyr Express | 6,615 | -20.6 | 100 |
Milford and West Wales Mercury | 2,266 | -21.8 | 100 |
Pontypridd and Llantrisant Observer | 3,512 | -22.5 | 100 |
Cynon Valley Leader | 3,250 | -22.7 | 100 |
Ellesmere Port Pioneer | 2,244 | -23 | 100 |
Crosby Herald | 2,647 | -24.5 | 100 |
Boston Target | 8,681 | -26.2 | 100 |
Sleaford Target | 3,669 | -43.8 | 100 |
East Grinstead Courier.co.uk | 4,242 | -55.8 | 100 |
East Lindsey Target | 4,721 | -83.9 | 100 |
Liverpool Sunday Echo | 20,736 | 100 | |
The Banffshire Advertiser | 2,754 | 100 | |
The Banffshire Herald | 1,612 | 100 | |
The Huntly Express | 2,048 | 100 | |
The Orcadian | 8,201 | 100 |
Here are all the figures for free weekly titles, again ranked by percentage year-on-year circulation change:
Total | Y-on-Y% | % Free | |
The Advertiser South Manchester | 80,524 | 136.8 | 99.4 |
Maidenhead Advertiser – Complimentary Pick Ups | 1,530 | 44.5 | 100 |
Worcester Observer | 45,015 | 22.8 | 100 |
KM Extra (Thanet) | 40,431 | 13.7 | 99.5 |
Northern Scot Mid Week Extra | 20,377 | 7.5 | 100 |
Stretford and Urmston Messenger | 18,428 | 5.6 | 99.2 |
Bury St Edmunds Mercury | 24,182 | 5.2 | 100 |
Hitchin Comet | 17,953 | 5.2 | 98.1 |
Nuneaton News | 30,397 | 4.7 | 100 |
Diss Mercury | 15,776 | 4.6 | 99.5 |
Saffron Walden Reporter | 16,448 | 2.8 | 98.7 |
Walsall Advertiser | 48,106 | 2.7 | 99.8 |
Sudbury Mercury | 13,884 | 2.1 | 100 |
Bromsgrove Standard | 32,113 | 1.8 | 100 |
Stowmarket Mercury | 12,221 | 1.6 | 100 |
Hunts Post | 39,173 | 1.5 | 95.4 |
Letchworth GC and Baldock Comet | 19,751 | 1 | 98.2 |
The Herts Advertiser | 39,499 | 0.9 | 96.7 |
East End Life | 83,990 | 0.8 | 100 |
North Somerset Times | 34,423 | 0.8 | 99 |
The Star | 18,165 | 0.7 | 100 |
Paisley People | 4,515 | 0.2 | 100 |
Royston Crow | 11,845 | 0.1 | 94.7 |
The Advertiser – Yarmouth Edition | 42,456 | 0.1 | 100 |
Champion | 163,120 | 0 | 100 |
Thetford and Watton Times | 18,768 | 0 | 96.7 |
Aberdeen Citizen | 52,891 | -0.1 | 100 |
Stourbridge News | 47,888 | -0.1 | 99.5 |
Bromsgrove Advertiser/Droitwich Spa Advertiser | 32,144 | -0.2 | 98.4 |
Redditch Advertiser | 39,202 | -0.2 | 99.5 |
Sandwell Chronicle | 44,901 | -0.2 | 99.7 |
Slough and Windsor Express | 44,846 | -0.2 | 96 |
Cannock Chronicle | 53,606 | -0.3 | 99.5 |
Halesowen News | 34,734 | -0.3 | 99.6 |
Messenger Extra (Gravesend, Dartford and Swanley) | 21,356 | -0.3 | 100 |
Stourbridge Chronicle | 37,968 | -0.4 | 100 |
Wolverhampton Chronicle | 47,743 | -0.4 | 99.6 |
Dudley Chronicle | 35,379 | -0.5 | 99.8 |
The Advertiser – Waveney Edition | 43,993 | -0.5 | 100 |
Dearne Valley Weekender | 55,406 | -0.6 | 100 |
Halesowen Chronicle | 27,825 | -0.6 | 100 |
Newbury and Thatcham Advertiser | 15,072 | -0.6 | 100 |
Telford Journal | 40,646 | -0.6 | 98.8 |
Wymondham and Attleborough Mercury | 13,676 | -0.6 | 98.6 |
North Devon Gazette | 42,092 | -0.7 | 97.1 |
Solihull Observer | 52,893 | -0.8 | 100 |
Worcester Journal (Berrows) | 40,604 | -0.8 | 99.5 |
Dudley News | 29,980 | -0.9 | 100 |
The Evesham and Cotswold Journal | 27,012 | -0.9 | 80.6 |
Ely Standard | 5,801 | -1 | 53.3 |
Midweek – Weston Super Mare | 29,407 | -1.1 | 100 |
The Shuttle | 35,687 | -1.2 | 91.8 |
Kent On Sunday | 39,579 | -1.3 | 100 |
The Advertiser – Norwich Edition | 48,447 | -1.3 | 100 |
Dunmow Broadcast | 12,253 | -1.4 | 98.7 |
Shrewsbury Chronicle | 32,425 | -1.4 | 91 |
Midweek Visiter | 43,642 | -1.5 | 100 |
Formby Times | 9,936 | -1.6 | 100 |
Stevenage Comet | 29,087 | -1.7 | 98.6 |
The Cumbrian Gazette (West) | 18,505 | -1.7 | 100 |
Coastal Scene | 9,834 | -1.8 | 100 |
Oswestry and Border Chronicle | 11,196 | -1.8 | 97.8 |
Stirling News incorporating Alloa and Hillfoots Weekender | 15,612 | -1.8 | 100 |
KM Extra Ashford | 8,434 | -2 | 100 |
Advertiser | 31,819 | -2.1 | 100 |
KM Extra (Folkestone and Hythe) | 8,854 | -2.2 | 100 |
Cambs Times | 12,014 | -2.4 | 92.1 |
Stockport Times West | 36,863 | -2.5 | 100 |
Milton Keynes Citizen | 92,522 | -2.6 | 99.8 |
Swanage and Wareham Advertiser | 8,615 | -2.6 | 100 |
Chester-Le-Street Advertiser | 13,890 | -2.7 | 100 |
KM Extra (Maidstone) | 14,834 | -2.8 | 100 |
Tameside Advertiser | 71,428 | -2.8 | 98.4 |
Bedford Borough Times and Citizen | 62,211 | -3 | 100 |
KM Extra (Medway) | 31,234 | -3 | 100 |
Redditch Standard | 38,127 | -3 | 100 |
Chorley and Leyland Citizen | 22,128 | -3.2 | 100 |
Midweek (Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead) | 40,014 | -3.3 | 100 |
Reading Midweek | 53,592 | -3.3 | 100 |
Dumfries Courier | 21,660 | -3.4 | 98.1 |
Durham Advertiser | 21,074 | -3.5 | 100 |
Herald and Post – Luton and Dunstable | 72,001 | -3.5 | 100 |
The London Magazine | 78,741 | -3.5 | 99.7 |
Croydon Advertiser | 30,307 | -3.6 | 72.1 |
Exmouth Herald | 16,039 | -3.6 | 99.9 |
Stockport Times East | 39,358 | -3.7 | 100 |
Wisbech Standard | 9,677 | -3.8 | 87.3 |
Consett-Stanley Advertiser | 22,840 | -4.2 | 100 |
Wilmslow Express | 12,996 | -4.2 | 92.9 |
Salford Advertiser | 67,428 | -4.8 | 98.3 |
KM Extra (Canterbury) | 27,856 | -5 | 100 |
St. Helens Star | 66,530 | -6.1 | 99.1 |
The Cumbrian Gazette (East) | 24,254 | -6.3 | 100 |
Wanstead and Woodford Guardian | 3,595 | -6.6 | 57.7 |
The Barnsley Independent | 55,445 | -6.7 | 100 |
Thurrock Gazette | 44,989 | -6.9 | 98.3 |
Runcorn and Widnes World | 27,928 | -7 | 99.7 |
Christchurch Advertiser | 13,641 | -7.1 | 100 |
Times (Faversham, Whitstable and Herne Bay and Canterbury) | 26,298 | -7.1 | 95.4 |
Glossop Advertiser | 9,595 | -7.2 | 99.3 |
Stroud Life | 12,017 | -7.4 | 75.3 |
Mid Beds Times and Citizen | 16,290 | -7.6 | 100 |
The Basingstoke Extra | 18,965 | -7.7 | 100 |
Bournemouth Advertiser | 38,486 | -7.9 | 100 |
Brentwood Weekly News | 13,387 | -8 | 100 |
Crewe and Nantwich Guardian | 23,156 | -8 | 99.9 |
Swindon Star | 25,367 | -8.5 | 100 |
Walsall Chronicle | 43,677 | -8.7 | 99.7 |
Chelmsford Weekly News | 39,589 | -8.8 | 100 |
Chester Xtra | 32,750 | -8.8 | 100 |
Rotherham Record | 57,821 | -9 | 100 |
Surrey and Hants Star Courier | 51,448 | -9.1 | 100 |
Wirral Globe | 97,368 | -9.3 | 99.2 |
Leigh, Tyldesley and Atherton Journal | 41,284 | -10 | 97.8 |
Basildon, Wickford and Billericay Recorder | 44,121 | -10.6 | 100 |
Stratford upon Avon Observer | 12,536 | -11 | 100 |
Sutton Coldfield Observer | 44,299 | -11 | 99 |
Eastleigh newsextra | 17,290 | -11.1 | 100 |
New Forest Post | 26,336 | -11.5 | 100 |
Inverness Scene | 15,847 | -11.8 | 100 |
Poole Advertiser | 35,851 | -12.2 | 100 |
Weymouth and Portland Advertiser | 19,625 | -12.5 | 100 |
Sale and Altrincham Messenger | 41,240 | -13 | 98.3 |
Coventry Observer | 49,392 | -13.3 | 100 |
Lichfield Mercury | 29,455 | -13.3 | 97.5 |
Southend Standard | 38,551 | -13.9 | 100 |
Winchester newsextra | 10,107 | -14 | 100 |
Evesham Observer | 13,305 | -14.2 | 100 |
Southend Standard – Castle Point, Rayleigh and Rochford | 33,781 | -14.2 | 100 |
Staines Informer | 28,493 | -14.6 | 100 |
North Yorkshire Advertiser | 20,182 | -14.8 | 100 |
Rugby Observer | 25,733 | -15.2 | 100 |
West Cornwall Packet | 9,170 | -15.4 | 99.4 |
Wear Valley Advertiser | 18,067 | -17.3 | 100 |
Leamington Spa Observer | 21,946 | -17.9 | 100 |
Great Barr Observer | 16,178 | -18.2 | 99.9 |
Banbury Cake | 13,702 | -19.2 | 100 |
Campaign Caerphilly, Ystrad Mynach and Bargoed | 22,991 | -19.3 | 100 |
Solihull News | 51,731 | -20.1 | 99 |
Wimborne and Ferndown Advertiser | 8,999 | -20.4 | 100 |
Nottingham and Long Eaton Topper | 117,356 | -20.5 | 100 |
Bracknell and Wokingham Weekender | 26,145 | -20.6 | 100 |
Wiltshire Star | 25,096 | -20.8 | 100 |
Crewe Xtra | 10,254 | -21.1 | 100 |
Folkestone Herald | 17,777 | -21.6 | 56.6 |
Bolton Journal | 19,155 | -21.8 | 100 |
Gloucestershire Independent | 11,279 | -24.6 | 100 |
Fife and Kinross Extra | 17,305 | -25.4 | 100 |
The Packet | 16,076 | -27.1 | 99.1 |
Darlington Aycliffe and Sedgefield Advertiser | 32,973 | -29.3 | 100 |
Crawley News | 16,471 | -32.9 | 100 |
Tribune | 22,863 | -34.4 | 100 |
Warrington Midweek | 23,314 | -34.4 | 100 |
East Cleveland Herald and Post | 15,029 | -37.9 | 100 |
Stockton and Billingham Herald and Post | 29,091 | -39.9 | 100 |
South Lakes and North Lancs Citizen | 9,082 | -46.1 | 100 |
Middlesbrough Herald and Post | 15,544 | -46.2 | 100 |
Uxbridge and West Drayton Gazette | 20,494 | -53.5 | 100 |
Bury Journal | 9,319 | -53.8 | 100 |
Ealing and Acton Gazette | 20,796 | -55.1 | 88 |
Hounslow Chronicle | 13,678 | -65.5 | 100 |
Oldham Advertiser | 17,906 | -67.7 | 99.4 |
The Coventry Times | 11,870 | -80.6 | 100 |
Brighton and Hove Independent | 13,005 | 100 | |
Mayfair Times | 20,871 | 100 |
That’s odd.
On Feb 9 on this very website bosses of the Reading Chronicle were quoted as saying the sales of the paper had gone up by 50% following the closure of of the Reading Post. They proudly announced that the increase was based on the ABC figure for Feb 2014. Actual copies sold in Feb were 4,804. The latest ABC statistics show sales in December 2014 as 4,254. Holdthefrontpage helpfully calculates this as a DECREASE of 7.6%
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It’s all bleak reading. What will be the figures in, say, five years time?
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Freesheets seem to be selling well…
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@Observer50 – the Reading Post closed down in December 2014.
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Nice to see the claptrap being spouted by Local World HQ zealots that their lemming-like rush to web everything first is having no affect on newspaper sales performance finally nailed to the wall thanks to some cold, hard facts. How disgraceful that these moonbeams have been able to bleed those wonderful papers dry in order to populate their low quality, ad-ruined websites and, in the process, ruin brands in their market place and send them spiralling towards oblivion. These people truly have no shame.
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I don’t see the Harrogate Advertiser here. Am I looking in the wrong place?
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Why no Johnston Pressers?
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What are they hiding?
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JP stopped reporting its weekly ABCs about 9 months ago. Waste of money apparently. God knows how the advertising team are managing to sell any ads without a reliable sales figure to quote.
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JP journo
Better no sales figure to quote than these all time lows here at Archant
Businesses can see just how bad things have become here as we used to crow about our sales figures a few years ago but not surprisingly brush all mention under the carpet now and told not to discuss numbers.
You try selling ads into the weeklies and the dailies when no ones reading them.
Complete shambles
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I’ve just spotted the North Yorkshire Advertiser 20,182, down 14.8%. That must be all the JP Advertiser series including Knaresborough Post etc.
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Is there anyone left at JP to sell ads? None at Sunderland, just five newsroom execs, one reporter and the office cat.
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As LocWorlder asks: Why no Johnston Presses?
The figures miss out tonnes of papers in Lancashire. Can’t HTFP ask Ashley?
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Looking at the dire state of the EDP and EN it’s not surprising that Archant want to remove all trace of these two papers from the front of their building, they saw this coming
Be interesting to see if the editor makes any comment in the papers about the embarrassing state that his two dailies and the free falling weeklies are in but somehow I think it will remain the elephant in the room.
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JP simply don’t want advertisers to know the alarmingly low sales figures. God knows what spin surviving ad reps tell them to paper cracks. Great shame.
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Congratulations to the Goole times and Selby Times.
I worked with the Sales Director of both those titles at the Hull Daily Mail and if anyone can squeeze more newspaper sales and advertising revenue out of a declining market ,belief you me ,he can.
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Archant did use to crow about their EDP /Evening News sales figures. The trouble is the figures were made up..they got rumbled and one man was made the scapegoat.
The silence since been deafening……
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You’re right Archant lifer, made up figures that they shouted about,God awful figures they’re choosing to ignore
unbelievably they are still tweeting about being the countrys ‘biggest selling regional paper’ and the editor is using his favourite comedy catchphrase ‘tub thumping’ value of the EDP ???
Beggars belief how out of touch they are and how gullible they think their few remaining readers are.
The ‘ collapsed readership of the EDP and EN elephant in the room appears to be getting bigger
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Having worked at Archant until 4-5 years ago I am dumbfounded to see how far the sales of the EDP and evening news have fallen in recent times.
For the DP to be selling just over 40,000 copies when I remember it selling 75,000 on s poor day,and for the evening news, an odd title for a paper you can buy at breakfast time, to have all but entirely lost its audience is both an eye opener and a shocking statistic indicating a paper on its last legs surejy?
How ever can the powers that be allow these two once proud titles to continue, presumably losing money on a daily basis.
Glad I’m out of t of it but sorry for those staff that remain
Worrying times and with no positive vibes from above
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