There are newspapers distributed nationally in the United Kingdom and some in Scotland only, and others serving a local area. National daily newspapers publish on every day except 25 December and Sunday, and there are also Sunday newspapers. Sunday newspapers may be independent; e.g. The Observer was an independent Sunday newspaper from its founding in 1791 until it was acquired by The Guardian in 1993. Many daily newspapers now have Sunday stablemates, usually with a related name (e.g. The Times and Sunday Times), but editorially distinct.
UK newspapers can generally be split into two distinct categories: the more serious and intellectual newspapers, usually referred to as the broadsheets due to their large size, and sometimes known collectively as "the quality press", and others, generally known as tabloids, and collectively as "the popular press", which have tended to focus more on celebrity coverage and human interest stories rather than political reporting or overseas news. The tabloids in turn have been divided into the more sensationalist mass market titles, or "red tops", such as The Sun and the Daily Mirror, and the middle-market papers, the Daily Express and the Daily Mail.
The Independent and The Times have changed in recent years to a compact format, not much bigger than that used by the tabloids. The Guardian moved in September 2005 to what is described as a "Berliner" format, slightly larger than a compact. Its Sunday stablemate The Observer followed suit.
Other Sunday broadsheets, including The Sunday Times, which tend to have a large amount of supplementary sections, have kept their larger sized format. The national Sunday titles usually have a different layout and style to their weekly sister papers, and are produced by separate journalistic and editorial staff.
All the major UK newspapers currently have websites, some of which provide free access. The Times and The Sunday Times have a paywall requiring payment on a per-day or per-month basis for non-subscribers. The Financial Times business daily also has limited access for non-subscribers. The Independent became online only upon its last printed edition on the 26 March 2016. However unlike the previously mentioned newspapers it does not require any payment to access its news content. Instead the newspaper offers extras for those wishing to sign up to a payment subscription, such as crosswords, Sudoku puzzles, weekend supplements and being able to automatically download each daily edition of the week to be able to read offline.
Most towns and cities in the UK have at least one local newspaper, such as the Evening Post in Bristol and The Echo in Cardiff. They are not known nationally for their journalism in the way that (despite much syndication) some city-based newspapers in the USA are (e.g. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe). An exception to this was the well-regarded Manchester Guardian, which dropped the "Manchester" from its name in 1959 and relocated its main operations to London in 1964. The Guardian Media Group produced a Mancunian paper, the Manchester Evening News, until 2010 when along with its other local newspapers in the Greater Manchester area it was sold to Trinity Mirror.
Regional newspapers in England
(Incomplete list)
Local newspapers in England
Abingdon
Abingdon Herald
Accrington
Accrington Observer
Alnwick
Northumberland Gazette
Alton
Alton Herald
The Argus
Ascot
Bracknell & Ascot Times
Ashford, Kent
Ashford Herald
Kentish Express
yourashford
Axminster
Pulmans Weekly News
View From Axminster (weekly, free)
Aylesbury
Bucks Herald
Banbury
Banbury Cake
Banbury Guardian
Barnsley
The Barnsley Chronicle
The Independent
The Star
Barrow-in-Furness
North West Evening Mail
Basildon
Basildon Yellow Advertiser
Basingstoke
Basingstoke Gazette
Basingstoke Observer
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire on Sunday
Times & Citizen
Bicester
Bicester Advertiser
Bicester Review
Birmingham
Birmingham Post (weekly)
Evening Mail (daily)
Forward, formerly the Birmingham Voice (published 20 times a year by Birmingham City Council)
Sports Argus (now just a pull out in the Birmingham Mail)
Sunday Mercury (Sunday mornings)
Blackpool
Blackpool Gazette
Bolton
Bolton News
Bootle
Bootle Champion", part of the award-winning Champion newspaper series in Sefton and West Lancashire
Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston Standard
Boston Target
Bourne, Lincolnshire
Bourne Local
Bourne, Lincolnshire/Market Deeping, Lincolnshire and Rutland
Stamford Mercury
Bournemouth, Dorset
The Poole Observer
Bracknell
Bracknell News
Bracknell Midweek
Bracknell Standard
Bradford
The Bradfordian
Telegraph and Argus
Braintree, Essex
Braintree and Witham Times
Brentwood
Brentwood Gazette
Bridlington
Bridlington Free Press
Bridport (Dorset)
The Bridport News
Brighouse
Brighouse Echo (weekly, Thursdays)
Brighton
The Argus (formerly Brighton Evening Argus)
Bristol
Bristol Evening Post
Bristol Observer (weekly, free)
Bromsgrove
Bromsgrove Standard
Bromyard
Teme Valley Times
Buckingham
The Advertiser
Bude (Cornwall)
Bude & Stratton Post
Burnley
Burnley Express
Burton-upon-Trent
Burton Mail
Bury
Bury Times
Bury St. Edmunds
Bury Free Press
Buxton
Buxton Advertiser
Cambridge
Cambridge Evening News
Camelford (Cornwall)
Camelford & Delabole Post
Canterbury
Canterbury Times
Kentish Gazette
Carlisle
News and Star (daily except Fridays and Sundays)
Cumberland News (Fridays)
Cumbrian Gazette (weekly; free)
Chesham
Bucks Examiner (weekly)
Cheshunt
Cheshunt (and Waltham Cross) Mercury
Chester
Chester and District Standard (weekly; free)
Chester Chronicle (weekly)
Chester Evening Leader
Chester Mail (weekly; free)
Chesterfield
Advertiser
Derbyshire Times
Express
Chew Valley
Chew Valley Gazette
Chichester
Chichester Observer
Chorley
Chorley Citizen (weekly; free)
Chorley Guardian (weekly)
Cirencester
The Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard (weekly, established 1837)
Cleobury Mortimer
Teme Valley Times
Coalville
Coalville Times (weekly; also edition in Ashby de la Zouch and Swadlincote)
Colchester
Essex County Standard
Evening Gazette
Congleton
Congleton Chronicle
Cotswolds
Cotswold Journal
Coventry
Coventry Advertiser (monthly; free)
Coventry Observer (weekly; free)
Coventry Telegraph (daily)
Crawley
Crawley News
Crawley Observer
Crewe
Crewe Chronicle (weekly)
Crewe Guardian (weekly, free)
South Cheshire Mail (weekly, free)
Croydon
Croydon Advertiser (weekly, also editions in NE Surrey)
Croydon Guardian (weekly, free)
Croydon Post (weekly, free)
Daventry
Daventry Express (weekly)
Deal
Deal and Sandwich Express
East Kent Mercury
yourdeal
Derby
Derby Evening Telegraph
Derby Express (weekly; free)
Derby Trader (weekly; free)
Dewsbury
Dewsbury Reporter
Diss, Norfolk
Diss Express
Doncaster
Doncaster Free Press
Dover
Dover Express
Dover Mercury
yourdover
Driffield
Driffield Post
Driffield Times
Droitwich
Droitwich Standard
Dudley
Dudley News (weekly)
Express and Star (Dudley version of the Wolverhampton newspaper)
Durham
Darlington & Stockton Times
Durham Times
Teesdale Mercury
Wear Valley Mercury
Eastbourne
Eastbourne Gazette
Eastbourne Herald
Evesham
Evesham Journal
Exeter
Express and Echo
Flying Post
Exmouth
Exmouth Journal
Farnborough
Farnborough News
Star Courier
Faversham
Faversham News
Faversham Times
yourswale
Fleetwood
Fleetwood Weekly News
Folkestone
Folkestone Herald
Kentish Express
yourshepway
Formby
Formby Visitor
Formby Reporter
Formby Champion
Furness
North-West Evening Mail
Gainsborough
Gainsborough Standard
Garstang
Garstang Courier
Glossop
Glossop Advertisers
Glossop Chronicle
Glossop Gazette
Gloucestershire
The Forester
Gloucester Citizen
Gloucestershire Echo
Stroud Life
Goole
Goole, Howden, Thorne Courier (owned by Johnston Press)
Goole Times
Grantham
Grantham Journal
Gravesend
Gravesend Messenger
The Reporter, formerly The Gravesend Reporter (Archant)
Grimsby and Northern Lincolnshire
Grimsby Telegraph
Guildford
Surrey Advertiser
Halifax
Halifax Evening Courier
Harlow
Harlow Scene
Harlow Star
The Herald
The Mercury
Harrogate
Harrogate Advertiser
Hartlepool
Hartlepool Mail
Hastings
Hastings & St. Leonards Observer
Hebden Bridge
Hebden Bridge Times
Hemel Hempstead
Hemel Hempstead Gazette
Herald Express
Henley-on-Thames
Henley Standard
Hereford
Hereford Times
Herne Bay
Herne Bay Gazette
Herne Bay Times
Hertford
Hertfordshire Mercury
Hertfordshire
Herts Advertiser
Hertfordshire Mercury
St Albans Observer
Watford Observer
Welwyn Hatfield Times
Heywood
Heywood Advertiser
Hexham
Hexham Courant
Holmfirth
Holme Valley Express
Holsworthy (Devon)
Holsworthy Post
Honiton (Devon)
Midweek Herald
View from Honiton
Horsham
The Resident (weekly; free)
Hucknall
Hucknall and Bulwell Dispatch
Huddersfield
Colne Valley Chronicle
Huddersfield & District Chronicle
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Huddersfield Weekly News (free)
Hythe, Kent
Hythe Herald
Kentish Express
yourshepway
Ilkley
Ilkley Gazette
Ipswich
Evening Star (owned by Archant)
Isle of Sheppey
Sheerness Times Guardian
Sheppey Gazette
yourswale
Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight County Press
Wight Insight (journal of Isle of Wight Council)
Keighley
Keighley News
Kendal
Westmorland Gazette
King's Lynn
The Citizen (weekly, free)
Lynn News & Advertiser (Tuesdays and Fridays)
Kingston upon Hull
Hull Daily Mail
Kingston upon Thames
Kingston Guardian
Surrey Comet
Knutsford
Knutsford Guardian
Lancaster
Lancaster Guardian
Langport
Langport Leveller
Launceston (Cornwall)
Cornish & Devon Post
Leeds
Leeds Express
Yorkshire Evening Post
Yorkshire Post
The Yorkshire Reporter
Leek
Leek Post and Times
Your Leek Paper
Leicester
Leicester Mercury
Leicester Advertiser (monthly; free)
Leigh, Greater Manchester
Leigh Journal
Leigh Reporter
Leominster
Teme Valley Times
Leyland
Leyland Guardian (weekly)
Lichfield
Lichfield Mercury
Liverpool
Liverpool Daily Post
Liverpool Echo
Mersey Reporter
London – see List of newspapers in London for a more complete list
Loughborough
Loughborough Echo
Loughborough Mail
Loughborough Trader Xtra
Loughton
Loughton Guardian (part of the Newsquest group)
Ludlow
Ludlow Advertiser (weekly)
Teme Valley Times
Luton
Herald and Post
Luton on Sunday
Lyme Regis
View From Lyme Regis (weekly, free)
Macclesfield
The Macclesfield Express
The Macclesfield Times
Maidenhead
Maidenhead Advertiser
Maidstone
Kent Messenger
yourmaidstone
Malton
Malton Gazette & Herald (weekly)
Malvern
"Malvern Gazette"
Manchester
Manchester Evening News
Mansfield
Chad (Chronicle Advertiser)
Market Drayton
Market Drayton Advertiser
Market Harborough
Harborough Mail
Market Rasen
Market Rasen Mail
Medway
Medway Messenger
Medway News
Medway Standard
yourmedway
Melton Mowbray
Melton Times
Middlesbrough
Evening Gazette
Middleton, Greater Manchester
Middleton Guardian
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes Citizen
OneMK
Minehead
West Somerset Free Press
Newbury
Newbury Weekly News
Newcastle upon Tyne
Chronicle Extra (free weekly newspaper, for all of Newcastle)
Evening Chronicle
The Journal
Metro (free, Newcastle edition, published by Daily Mail and General Trust plc)
Sunday Sun
New Romney
Kentish Express
Romney Marsh Herald
yourshepway
Newtownabbey
Newtownabbey Times
Northampton
Northampton Chronicle & Echo
Northampton Mercury
Northwich
Northwich Guardian
North Yorkshire
The Advertiser (free)
North Yorkshire News (free)
Norwich
The Advertiser (Archant) (weekly, free)
Norwich Evening News (daily)
Nottinghamshire
Newark Advertiser
Nottingham Evening Post
Worksop Guardian
Oldham
Oldham Advertiser
Oldham Evening Chronicle
Ormskirk
Ormskirk and West Lancashire Advertiser
Ormskirk and West Lancashire Champion
Oxford
Oxford Mail
Oxford Star
Oxford Times
Penrith
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald (Saturdays)
Peterborough
Peterborough Evening Telegraph (daily, part of East Midlands Newspapers Ltd., owned by Johnston Press Plc)
Peterlee
Peterlee Star (weekly)
Pickering
Pickering Gazette & Herald (weekly)
Plymouth
Plymouth Evening Herald
Western Morning News
Portsmouth
The News
Sports Mail (weekly, football)
Prestwich
Prestwich and Whitefield Guide
Reading
Reading Chronicle
Reading Evening Post
Retford
Retford Times
Retford Trader and Guardian
Ripon
Ripon Gazette
Rochdale
Rochdale Observer
Romford
Romford Recorder
Romsey
Romsey Advertiser
Rotherham
Rotherham Advertiser
Royston
Royston Crow
Rugby
Rugby Advertiser (weekly)
Rugby Observer (weekly; free)
St. Helens
St. Helens Reporter
Salford
Salford Advertiser
Sandwich
Deal and Sandwich Express
East Kent Mercury
yoursandwich
Scarborough
Scarborough Evening News
Scarborough Mercury, later The Mercury (weekly)
Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe Telegraph
Selby
Selby Post
Selby Star
Selby Times
Seaford, East Sussex
Seaford Gazette
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks Chronicle
Sheffield
Sheffield Star
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury Chronicle
Sittingbourne
East Kent Gazette
Skipton
Craven Herald & Pioneer
Sleaford
Sleaford Standard
Sleaford Target
Slough
Slough Express
Somerton
Somerton Sentinel
South Tyneside
Shields Gazette – the oldest provincial evening newspaper in the United Kingdom
Southend
The Evening Echo
Southport
Southport Champion
Southport Reporter
Southport Visiter
Stafford
Stafford & Stone Chronicle
Stamford and Rutland
Stamford Mercury
Sheffield Telegraph
Stockport
Stockport Express
Stoke-on-Trent
The Sentinel
Stourbridge
Stourbridge Chronicle
Stourbridge News
Stowmarket
Stowmarket Mercury
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford Herald
Stratford Observer
Stroud
Stroud News and Journal
Sunderland
Sunderland Echo
Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield Observer
Swindon
Swindon Advertiser
Swindon Star
Tameside (metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester)
Tameside Advertiser
Tameside Reporter
Tamworth
Tamworth Herald
Taunton
The Somerset County Gazette (weekly; focus chiefly on Taunton)
The Taunton Times (weekly; free)
Tenbury Wells
Teme Valley Times
Tenterden
Kentish Express
yourashford
Isle of Thanet
Isle of Thanet Gazette
Thanet Adscene
Thanet Extra
Thanet Times
yourthanet
Todmorden
Todmorden News
Torbay (and South Devon)
Herald Express
Torbay Times Community Newspaper
Vale of Belvoir
Melton Times
The Village Voice (monthly; free)
Wakefield
Wakefield Express
Wakefield Express Extra (weekly; free)
Walton
Walton News & Mail weekly
Warminster
Warminster Journal
Warrington
Warrington Guardian
Wetherby
Wetherby News
Whitby
Whitby Gazette (weekly)
Whitchurch, Shropshire
Whitchurch Herald
Whitstable
Whitstable Gazette
Whitstable Times
Widnes
Widnes Weekly News (weekly)
Widnes World (weekly)
Wigan
Wigan Evening Post
Wigan Observer
Wigan Reporter
Wiltshire
Gazette and Herald
"Wiltshire Star" (Weekly Free)
Wiltshire Times
Winchester
Winchester Today
Wirral
Wirral Globe
Wirral News (editions for Wallasey, Birkenhead, Hoylake & West Kirby, Heswall, Bromborough)
Wokingham
Wokingham Times
Wolverhampton
Express and Star (covering the whole of the Black Country, this is the biggest-selling regional evening newspaper in the UK)
Worcester
Berrow's Worcester Journal (part of the Newsquest group)
Worcester News (part of the Newsquest group)
Worcestershire
Kidderminster Shuttle (weekly; free)
Worksop
Worksop Guardian
Worksop Trader
Yeovil
Western Gazette
York
York Press
Belfast
Andersonstown News
Belfast News
North Belfast News
South Belfast News
County Antrim
Antrim Guardian
Ballycastle Chronicle
Ballymena Guardian
Ballymoney Chronicle
Newtownabbey Times
Ulster Star
County Armagh
Armagh Observer
Lurgan Mail
Portadown Times
Ulster Gazette
County Down
County Down Outlook
County Down Spectator
Down Recorder
The Mourne Observer
Newry Reporter
Newtownards Chronicle
County Fermanagh
Fermanagh Herald
Fermanagh News
The Impartial Reporter
County Londonderry
Coleraine Chronicle
The Coleraine Leader
County Derry Post
Derry Journal
Derry News
Limavady Chronicle
Londonderry Sentinel
Mid Ulster Mail
Mid Ulster Observer
Limavady Northern Constitution
Northern Constitution
County Tyrone
Mid Ulster Mail
Mid Ulster Observer
Tyrone Constitution
Tyrone Courier
Strabane Chronicle
Strabane Weekly News and Tyrone & Donegal Reporter
Tyrone Herald
Tyrone Times
Ulster Herald
The Western Mail – owned by Trinity Mirror
Y Cymro (weekly, Welsh language)
Wales on Sunday - sister publication of The Western Mail
North Wales Daily Post
South Wales Argus (Gwent area)
South Wales Echo (Cardiff area)
South Wales Evening Post (Swansea Bay area)
The Leader (Wrexham & Flintshire)
Abergavenny Chronicle
Abergele Visitor
Bangor and Anglesey Mail
Brecon and Radnor Express
Caernarfon Herald
Caerphilly Observer
Cambrian News
Carmarthen Journal
Celtic Weekly Newspapers
Denbighshire Visitor
Flintshire Chronicle
Holyhead and Anglesey Mail
Llanelli Star
North Wales Weekly News
The Pembrokeshire Herald
The Powys County Times
Pembrokeshire (North) County Echo
Rhyl Visitor
Tenby Observer
The Western Telegraph
Wrexham Chronicle
Papurau Bro ("Area Papers") are Welsh language newspapers produced nominally monthly (typically 10 issues a year with a summer break) which cover the news in a small area - a town, group of parishes, one or a few valleys, etc. - with a circulation of perhaps a few thousand each. There are between 50 and 60 Papurau Bro which cover the whole of Wales, plus the Welsh communities of Liverpool and London. Papers are frequently named after local features, connections, crafts, etc., or in dialect (clebran, clecs, clochdar, and clonc; all imply "gossip"). The first papur bro (Y Dinesydd) appeared in 1973 in Cardiff, and the following decade saw the establishment of most of the others. Much of the work of producing the papers is done voluntarily (aside from the printing), although financial support is given by Bwrdd yr Iaith (Welsh Language Board). Some of the papers listed may have ceased publication.
Several newspapers in languages other than English are published in Britain, for immigrant and expatriate readers. Newspapers, both national and local, in Arabic, Bulgarian, Bangla, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Urdu, and other languages are published.
Desi Xpress – The UK's only national Asian entertainment weekly tabloid newspaper
Lanka Tribune – fortnightly newspaper for British Sri Lankans
Nigerian Watch – fortnightly newspaper aimed at the Nigerian community in the UK
The Irish World – aimed at Britain's Irish community
The Voice – a weekly tabloid newspaper aimed at the British Afro-Caribbean community
The Baptist Times – Baptist/general Protestant newspaper
The Catholic Herald – Catholic newspaper
Catholic Voice of Lancaster – monthly Catholic paper for Lancaster Diocese
Christian Today – trans-denominational Christian newspaper
Church of England Newspaper – weekly Anglican paper
Church Times – weekly Anglican paper
English Churchman – fortnightly newspaper aimed at Protestants
Hamazor – published by the London-based World Zoroastrian Organisation
The Friend - weekly independent Quaker newsmagazine
Jewish Chronicle – oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world
Jewish Telegraph – editions published for Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Scotland - Britains only region Jewish newspaper and has the longest serving editor of any newspaper in the country at its helm in Paul Harris.
Jewish Tribune – Haredi Jewish; has section in Yiddish language
Leeds Catholic Post – monthly Catholic paper for Leeds Diocese
The Messenger - fortnightly Seventh-day Adventist news magazine
The Muslim News – Islamic newspaper
The Tablet – Catholic newspaper
The Universe – Catholic newspaper
Several Muslim newspapers
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! – bi-monthly newspaper of the Marxist organisation the Revolutionary Communist Group
Irish Democrat – an Irish Republican weekly
The Socialist – weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales
Socialist Appeal – monthly newspaper of the British section of the International Marxist Tendency
Socialist Worker – weekly newspaper from the Socialist Workers Party
Solidarity – weekly newspaper of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty
League Express – Monday paper covering all Rugby League news, results and fixtures
Wisden – Weekly paper covering cricket news, articles, results and fixtures & other cricket related stories
The Non-League Paper
Racing +
Racing Post – daily horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting newspaper
The Rugby Paper – Sunday paper summarising the weekend's rugby union news
The Sports Journal – Friday paper looking back at the weeks sporting news
Black Country Bugle – a weekly look at the history of the Black Country, published in newspaper format
Bulletin – an online only UK newspaper
The Economist – weekly news-focused magazine
Estates Gazette – weekly newspaper aimed at property professionals
Farmers Guardian – weekly newspaper aimed at the farming industry
First News – weekly newspaper for children
Lloyd's List – daily international maritime, shipping and transport newspaper
London Gazette – official notices have to be published here; it is the oldest surviving English newspaper
London Review of Books – fortnightly literary newspaper
Mature Times – the UK's only campaigning newspaper for the over-50s
The National Student – the UK's independent national student newspaper
Private Eye – fortnightly satirical magazine
The Stage – weekly newspaper covering entertainment issues, focused primarily on the theatre
Times Educational Supplement – weekly newspaper for the teaching profession
Times Higher Educational Supplement – weekly newspaper for university / higher education profession
Times Literary Supplement – a weekly literary and cultural journal
Ariel – BBC
The Gazette – John Lewis Partnership
Affairs Today – online student business news
The National Student – the UK's independent national student newspaper
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