List of newspapers in the United Kingdom
National newspapers
Traditionally newspapers could be split into 'quality', serious-minded newspapers (usually referred to as 'Broadsheets' due to their large size) and 'tabloid', less serious newspapers. However, due to considerations of convenience of reading, particularly in cafés and on trains etc., The Independent and The Times have both switched to a 'compact'-sized format, traditionally used by tabloids. The Guardian has also announced plans to switch to a Berliner format, a few centimeters wider than a compact, and about 10 centimeters taller.
Sunday serious-minded newspapers have tended to keep the broadsheet format due to considerations of size, as to maintain the same level of content in a tabloid paper would result in a single section many would find too thick, heavy and cumbersome.
National serious papers
Broadsheet format
- The Daily Telegraph (est. 1855) / The Sunday Telegraph (est. 1961) – owned by David and Frederick Barclay
- The Financial Times (est. 1888) – owned by Pearson PLC
- The Guardian (est. 1821) / The Observer (est. 1791) – owned by the Scott Trust (soon to move to 'Berliner' format)
- The Independent on Sunday (est. 1990) – owned by Tony O'Reilly
- The Sunday Times (est. 1822) – owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation
Compact format
- The Independent (est. 1986) – owned by Tony O'Reilly (only compact format available from May 2004)
- The Times (est. 1785) – owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (only compact format available from November 2004)
National middle-market papers
- Daily Express (est. 1900) / Sunday Express (est. 1918) – owned by Richard Desmond's Northern and Shell plc (broadsheet until 1977, now tabloid format)
- Daily Mail (est. 1896) / Mail on Sunday (est. 1982) – owned by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail and General Trust plc (broadsheet until 1971, now tabloid format)
- Metro (working towards true national status, wide availability in the major cities makes it the UK's 4th largest paper) – owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc
National tabloid papers
- Daily Star (est. 1978) / Daily Star Sunday
- The People (est. 1881) – owned by Trinity Mirror
- The Daily Mirror (est 1903) / Sunday Mirror (est. 1915) – owned by Trinity Mirror
- The Daily Sport / The Sunday Sport
- The Sun (est. 1964) / News of the World (est. 1843) – owned by News Corporation
- The Morning Star (est. 1930)
Scottish serious papers
Broadsheet format
- The Herald (est. 1783) / Sunday Herald (est. 1999)
- Scotland On Sunday (est. 1988)
- The Press and Journal (est. 1748)
- The Daily Telegraph has a daily Scottish edition.
Compact format
- The Scotsman (est. 1817,stablemate of Scotland on Sunday,formerly a broadsheet)
- The Times has a daily Scottish edition.
Scottish tabloids
- Daily Record (est. 1842) / Sunday Mail – owned by Trinity Mirror
- The Sunday Post
- The Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Express have a daily Scottish edition.
Planned newspapers
- The World, an upmarket compact planned by Stephen Glover
- Life on Sunday, a mid-market Sunday tabloid.
Specialist newspapers
- The Economist (weekly newspaper owned by Pearson plc)
- The Jewish Chronicle (aimed at Britain's Jewish community)
- London Gazette (official notices have to be published here, it is the oldest surviving English newspaper)
- Racing Post - (daily horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting newspaper)
- The Stage (weekly newspaper covering entertainment issues, focused primarily on the theatre)
- The Voice (the leading newspaper aimed at the British Afro-Caribbean community)
Regional newspapers
England
- Eastern Daily Press (owned by Archant)
- East Anglian Daily Times (owned by Archant)
- The Journal (North East England)
- Liverpool Echo
- Manchester Evening News
- Newcastle Evening Chronicle
- Nottingham Evening Post
- Northern Echo (North East England)
- Sunday Sun (North East England)
- Western Morning News
- Yorkshire Post
- Evening Post (Greater Nottingham area)
- Western Daily Press
Wales
- Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh edition)
- South Wales Echo
- The Western Mail
- Y Cymro (weekly, Welsh language)
Scotland
- West Highland Free Press
- Shetland Times
- The Courier, Fife based daily newspaper
Northern Ireland
- The Belfast Telegraph
- The Irish News
- The (Belfast) News Letter (est. 1737, the oldest continually published English language daily newspaper still in existence)
Local newspapers
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. However, they are not known nationally for their journalism in the way that (despite much syndication) city-based newspapers in the USA are (e.g. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe). The single major exception to this pattern was the well-regarded Manchester Guardian, which dropped the 'Manchester' from its name (1959) and relocated to London (1976). The group continued to produce a Mancunian paper, the Manchester Evening News.
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England
- Abingdon
- Ascot
- Banbury
- Basingstoke
- Bracknell
- Bradford
- Bridport (Dorset)
- Birmingham
- Newscover Midlands (published 15 times a year)
- The Birmingham Post (mornings)
- The Evening Mail (evenings)
- The Birmingham Voice (published 20 times a year by Birmingham City Council)
- The Sports Argus (Saturday evenings)
- The Sunday Mercury (Sunday mornings)
- See also [1]
- Bolton
- Brighton
- Burnley
- Bury
- Cambridge
- Chester
- Chester Evening Leader
- Chester Chronicle (weekly)
- Chester and District Standard (weekly; free)
- Chester Mail (weekly; free)
- Coventry
- Crawley
- Crewe
- Crewe Chronicle (weekly)
- South Cheshire Mail (weekly, free)
- Crewe Guardian (weekly, free)
- Croydon
- Croydon Advertiser (weekly, also editions in NE Surrey)
- Derby
- Derby Evening Telegraph
- Derby Express (weekly; free)
- Derby Trader (weekly; free)
- Exeter
- Express and Echo (locally known as the "Suppress and Distort")
- Flying Post
- Gloucestershire
- Guildford
- Halifax
- Hertfordshire
- Huddersfield
- Ipswich
- Evening Star (owned by Archant)
- Isle of Wight
- Isle of Wight County Press
- Wight Insight (journal of Isle of Wight Council)
- Kent
- Kent Messenger (several local editions)
- Medway News
- Lancaster
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Liverpool
- London
- Evening Standard (published by Daily Mail and General Trust plc)
- The Metro
- Loughborough
- Manchester
- Middlesbrough
- Newbury
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Oxford
- Reading
- Sheffield
- Slough
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Wokingham
- Worcestershire
- Kidderminster Shuttle (weekly; free)
Northern Ireland
- Andersonstown News
- Antrim Times
- Armagh Standard and Ulster Gazette
- Bangor Spectator
- Belfast News
- Community Telegraph
- Derry Journal
- East Belfast Observer
- Fermanagh Herald
- Impartial Reporter
- Larne Times
- Londonderry Sentinel
- Newtownabbey Times
- Newtownards Chronicle
- North Belfast News
- Shankill Mirror
- South Belfast News
- Tyrone Constitution
- Ulster Star
- Ulster Herald
Scotland
- Glasgow
- Edinburgh
- Aberdeen
- Evening Express, the tabloid sister paper to the Press and Journal
Wales
Papurau Bro
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).
- Yr Angor (The Anchor)- Aberystwyth, Comins Coch, Llanbadarn Fawr, Penparcau and Waunfawr
- Yr Angor - Merseyside Welsh Community
- Yr Arwydd (The Signal) - Bodafon mountain area, Anglesey
- Y Barcud (The Kite) - Tregaron and District, Ceredigion
- Y Bedol (The Horseshoe) - Ruthin and District, Denbighshire
- Y Bigwn (The Thorn) - Denbigh
- Y Blewyn Glas (The Blue Grass) - Dyfi valley, Machynlleth, Powys
- Y Cardi Bach (The Little Cardi) - Whitland, Carmarthenshire
- Y Clawdd (The Dyke) - Wrexham and District
- Clebran (The Tattler) - y Frenni
- Clecs Y Cwm A'r Dref (Valley and Town Gossip) - Neath and District
- Clochdar (Cackle) - Cynon Valley, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Clonc (Gossip) - Lampeter and District
- Cwlwm (The Knot) - Carmarthen
- Dail Dysynni (Leaves of the Dysynni) - Dysynni valley, Tywyn, Gwynedd
- Y Dinesydd (The Citizen) - Cardiff and District
- Y Ddolen (The Link) - Ystwyth to Wyre valleys, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
- Eco'r Wyddfa (The Snowdon Echo) - Llanrug, Llanberis and Llanddeiniolen parishes, Gwynedd
- Y Fan A'r Lle - Brecon and District
- Y Ffynnon (The Spring) - Eifionydd, Garndolbenmaen, Gwynedd
- Y Gadlas (The Barnyard) - The district between the Conwy and Clwyd valleys
- Y Gambo (The Horse-cart) - Southwest Ceredigion
- Y Garthen (The Coverlet) - Teifi valley, Ceredigion
- Y Glannau (The Riverbanks) - Lower Vale of Clwyd, St Asaph.
- Glo Man (Small Coal) - Aman valley, Carmarthenshire
- Y Glorian (The Scales) - Top of the Rhondda valley, Tonpentre, Rhondda
- Y Glorian - Llangefni, Anglesey
- Goriad (The Key) - Bangor and Port Dinorwic
- Yr Hogwr (The Sharpener) - Bridgend area
- Llafar Bro (Area Speech) - Blaenau Ffestiniog and District, Gwynedd
- Llais (The Voice) - Tawe valley, Swansea
- Llais Aeron (The Voice of Aeron) - Aeron valley, Ceredigion
- Llais Ardudwy (The Voice of Ardudwy) - Ardudwy, Gwynedd
- Llais Ogwen (The Voice of Ogwen) - Ogwen valley, Bethesda, Gwynedd
- Llanw LLю (The Flow of LL10 (postcode area)) - Llyn peninsula, Pwllheli, Gwynedd
- Lleu - Dyffryn Nantlle, Caernarfon
- Y Llien Gwyn (The White Sheet) - Fishguard and District, Pembrokeshire
- Y Lloffwr (The Gleaner) - Dinefwr area, Carmarthen
- Nene - Ponciau, Penycae, Johnstown and Rhosllannerchrugog, Wrexham
- Yr Odyn (The Kiln) - Conwy valley, Llanrwst, Conwy
- Papur Fama (Moel Famau mountain Paper) - Mold and District, Flintshire
- Papur Menai (The Menai Paper) - Menai straits east of Penmon, Anglesey
- Papur Pawb (Everybody's Paper) - Talybont, Taliesin, Tre'r Ddol, Ceredigion
- Papur Y Cwm (The Valley Paper) - Gwendraeth valley, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire
- Y Pentan (The Chimneybreast) - Conwy Valley and estuary
- Pethe Penllyn (Penllyn Things) - Five parishes of Penllyn, Bala, Gwynedd
- Plu'r Gweunydd (Cotton Grass) - Y Foel, Llangadfan, Llanerfyl, Llanfair Caereinion, Adfa, Cefn Coch, Llwydiarth, Llangynyw, Dolanog, Rhiwhiraeth, Pontrobert, Meifod and Welshpool, Powys
- Y Rhwyd (The Net) - North west Anglesey
- Seren Hafren (The Star of the Severn) - Severn Valley, Newtown, Powys
- Tafod-Elai (The Tongue of the Ely) - Taff Ely, Cardiff
- Tafod Tafwys (The Tongue of the Thames) - for Welsh learners in London
- Y Tincer (The Tinker) - Mouths of the Glyn, Llangorwen, Tirymynach, Tremeurig and Borth valleys, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
- Tua'r Goleuni (Towards the Light) - Rhymney valley, Caerphilly
- Wilia - Swansea and District
- Yr Wylan (The Seagull) - Penrhyndeudraeth, Porthmadog, Beddgelert and District, Gwynedd
- Yr Ysgub (The Wheatsheaf) - Ceiriog, Tanat and Cain valleys, Powys
Restricted circulation newspapers
Corporate newspapers
- Ariel – BBC
University newspapers
- The Cambridge Student – University of Cambridge
- Varsity – University of Cambridge
- The Universe – University of Hertfordshire
- Felix – Imperial College
- London Student - University of London
- The Oxford Student – Oxford University
- Liverpool Student - University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University College
- The Cherwell – Oxford University
- Concrete – University of East Anglia
- KRED - University of Kent, Canterbury
- Nouse, Vision - University of York
Defunct newspapers
- Anti-Jacobin
- The Sunday Correspondent
- Black Dwarf
- Daily Courant (est. 1702)
- Daily Chronicle
- Daily Herald
- Daily News
- Daily Post
- Daily Sketch
- Daily Worker
- Despatch (Birmingham)
- The European
- Evening News
- Examiner
- Exchange Herald
- Labour Elector
- Leeds Mercury (est. 1718)
- Leeds Times
- Liverpool Mercury
- Manchester Chronicle
- Manchester Herald
- Manchester Gazette
- Manchester Observer
- Morning Chronicle
- Morning Post
- News Chronicle
- News on Sunday
- Northern Star
- Northern Whig (Belfast)
- North Briton
- Pall Mall Gazette
- Political Register
- Poor Man's Guardian
- Red Republican
- Republican
- Reynold's News
- Sheffield Register
- Star
- Sunday Correspondent
- Today
- The Week
- Weekly Review
- Workers' Dreadnought
See also
- Newspapers
- UK topics
- History of British newspapers
- List of left-wing publications in the United Kingdom
- List of Right-wing publications in the United Kingdom