Four of Trinity Mirror’s regional daily titles saw month-on-month increases in sales during October according to figures released today.
The Western Mail, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Birmingham Mail and Coventry Telegraph all posted circulation rises during the month, the latest monthly ABC figures showed.
However all the group’s daily and Sunday titles are selling fewer than their average circulation over the first six months of the year.
Today’s figures show that while the Western Mail, for instance, increased its monthly sale by 3.5pc in October, it is still down 3.03pc on the average for the period January to June.
Wales on Sunday has suffered the biggest sales fall compared to the first half of the year, down 14.76pc, while the Birmingham Mail, down 1.37pc, is showing the smallest drop.
The full figures are as follows:
Title | Oct-13 | Jan-Jun ABCs | Change |
Birmingham Mail | 39,729 | 40,280 | -1.37 |
Coventry Telegraph | 25,879 | 27,712 | -6.61 |
Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 17,042 | 17,704 | -3.74 |
Liverpool Echo | 71,621 | 74,984 | -4.48 |
Manchester Evening News | 70,265 | 73,622 | -4.56 |
Newcastle Chronicle | 39,728 | 43,308 | -8.27 |
North Wales Daily Post | 27,383 | 28,331 | -3.35 |
South Wales Echo | 25,313 | 27,700 | -8.62 |
Sunday Mercury | 29,618 | 31,982 | -7.39 |
Sunday Sun | 35,634 | 37,588 | -5.20 |
Teesside Evening Gazette | 30,632 | 33,013 | -7.21 |
The Journal | 18,922 | 20,875 | -9.36 |
Wales on Sunday | 19,959 | 23,416 | -14.76 |
Western Mail | 23,004 | 23,723 | -3.03 |
Gordon Bennett! the party’s over…………..
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I remember when the Western Mail’s circulation was 95,000 per day. Tragic.
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