Weekly Poll

[Bob Bacon]

Which newspaper do you read?

[ivor43]

cambrian news. (meirionnydd edition)

[Smokeyjoe]

Daily Post and the North Wales Weekly News.

[Clive Hughes]

North Wales Daily Poat

[rikoshea]

South Wales Evening Post

[John Turner]

I clicked on my daily National* but also get a weekly local - the Littlehampton Gazette (http://www.littlehamptongazette.co.uk/)

How's about posting links to your local rags like wot I've done?

*It's not The Sun - there's only two things wrong with The Sun

1. Pages 1 & 2

2. Pages 4 onwards
:smile:

[Dave322]

Daily Post

[mick carnell 53]

wrexham leader + nationals

[nasher546]

Nationals + Shropshire Star (Daily).

[Clive Rees (08)]

Western Mail, always after Wales have played in the Six Nations.

[Rog Ball 01]

I read the Forces Newspaper (The Sun) and the Folkestone Herald.

[jeffdj]

I read whats ever left on my bus normally its the metro

[steve bird]

south wales argus :SLEEP:

[Bricoates]

Daily Post (Welsh Edition)

Lots of local Soccer news and results.

[Scouse75]

Daily Post for me too. Loads of Liverpool reports, and they slag off North Wales Police. It saves us doing it!! lol

[craigyt]

Daily sport!:winker:

[Bob Bacon]

Well, 55 of you voted, so thank you for that.

As you can see, the most popular paper is the Sun, closely followed by the Daily Mail.

The Sun, originally launched as a left-of-centre broadsheet, it switched to tabloid format upon Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of the paper in 1969, and moved to the political right during the course of the 1970s, providing strong support to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives throughout her leadership of that party and, indeed, to John Major in the 1992 election. However, it’s supported Labour in the last three general elections, although the support has been fairly lukewarm (some might say opportunist).

That said, its political content is pretty superficial. Much more of the paper is taken up with celebrity gossip, sport, bizarre news stories, and games of chance like the National Lottery and its own Sun Bingo service.

The Daily Mail has a staunch right-wing agenda, and is lampooned by some for their over alarmist headlines, particularly about political asylum seekers. However, its formula, said by former owner Lord Northcliffe to give his readers a 'daily hate', has made the Daily Mail one of the most popular newspapers in the UK.

Some of the local papers:

Daily Post (http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/wales/daily-post-north-wales/)
Daily newspaper for Wales north of a line from Machynlleth to Wrexham…

Western Mail (http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/wales/western-mail/)
“Red-top” daily tabloid which bills itself as Wales’s national newspaper…

Wrexham Evening Leader (http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/wales/wrexham-evening-leader/)
Evening tabloid sold in and around Wrexham…

Wrexham Leader (http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/wales/wrexham-leader/)
Weekly freesheet broadsheet companion to the Wrexham Evening Leader…

South Wales Argus (http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/wales/south-wales-argus/)
Daily tabloid published in Newport and sold in the county of Monmouthshire (Gwen…

South Wales Echo (http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/wales/south-wales-echo/)
Daily and evening tabloid for Mid and South Glamorgan and Monmouthshire (Gwent)…

South Wales Evening Post (http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/wales/south-wales-evening-post/)
Swansea-based evening tabloid which became Wales’s biggest-selling newspaper in …

Oh yes, Craigyt, the Daily Sport! :skeptical:

Daily Sport (http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/redtops/daily-sport/)
The Sport is an unapologetically trashy tabloid, with no pretensions at all to hard news coverage (even the Daily Star (http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/redtops/daily-star/) has some political items, even if very sketchily covered). There’s almost zero news content, and what news there is is generally outlandish, “Double decker bus found on the Moon!!!”-style stuff – but to make up for that, there’s plenty of soft porn pictures and adverts for “adult” chatlines.

Once again, many thanks for taking part