Especially alert readers may have noticed that we’ve had a new page on Wings for a while, maintaining a current list of Scottish newspaper circulations.
We were just checking it today and noticed that – seemingly unreported anywhere – the Scottish “regionals” had had their biannual figures published, so we thought we may as well keep you updated.
REGIONAL DAILY (Jan-Jun 2018)
Press & Journal (Aberdeen) 45,935 (down 2%)
The Courier (Dundee) 34,260 (down 3%)
The Herald (Glasgow) 24,265 (down 6%)
Evening Express (Aberdeen) 21,003 (down 7%)
Evening Times (Glasgow) 19,130 (down 8%)
The Scotsman (Edinburgh) 13,739 (down 8%)
Evening Telegraph (Dundee) 12,351 (down 7%)
Paisley Daily Express (Paisley) 4,378 (down 3%)
Total: 175,061 (down 5%)
OTHER
Evening News (Edinburgh) 16,093 (no update, Jan-Dec 2017 stats)
The National (Scotland) 9,746 (no update, Jan-Dec 2017 stats)
Greenock Telegraph (Greenock) 8,958 (no update, Jan-Dec 2017 stats)
REGIONAL SUNDAY
Sunday Herald 16,345 (down 11%)
Scotland On Sunday 12,996 (no update, Jan-Dec 2017 stats)
Those will of course be the last ever figures for the Sunday Herald, and it marked its closure with the biggest drop of all the papers posting figures – a far cry from the heady days of almost 50,000 it rocketed to after coming out in favour of independence in the spring of 2014.
At the rates of decline recorded above, though, it won’t be long until other papers who haven’t managed to prolong their lives for a couple of years by appealing to the half of Scots who back a Yes vote join it in the dustbin of history.
