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The Sunday People

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Type
  
Sunday newspaper

Owner(s)
  
Trinity Mirror

Founded
  
16 October 1881

Format
  
Tabloid

Editor
  
Alison Phillips

Political alignment
  
Centre-left Populist

The Sunday People

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper, founded as The People on 16 October 1881.

Contents

It was bought by the Mirror group in 1961 along with the Daily Herald. It is still published by the Trinity Mirror Group, and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the News of the World, it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544. By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364. Despite its tagline claim to be a "truly independent" newspaper, The People endorsed the Labour Party at the 2015 general election on the recommendation of polling data from its readers.

Notable columnists

  • Garry Bushell had a two-page television opinion column, "Bushell On the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the Daily Star Sunday.
  • Jimmy Greaves, the former England footballer
  • Fred Trueman, former England cricketer and fast bowler.
  • Fred Harrison an established economic author of 19 books.

    • Editors

    1881: Sebastian Evans 1890s: Harry Benjamin Vogel 1900: Joseph Hatton 1907: 1913: John Sansome 1922: Robert Donald 1924: Hannen Swaffer 1925: Harry Ainsworth 1957: Stuart Campbell 1966: Bob Edwards 1972: Geoffrey Pinnington 1982: Nicholas Lloyd 1984: Richard Stott 1985: Ernie Burrington 1988: John Blake 1989: Wendy Henry 1989: Ernie Burrington (acting) 1990: Richard Stott 1991: Bill Hagerty 1992: Bridget Rowe 1996: Brendon Parsons 1998: Neil Wallis 2003: Mark Thomas 2008: Lloyd Embley 2012: James Scott 2014: Alison Phillips

    References

    The Sunday People Wikipedia
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