THE evening newspaper, the Greenock Telegraph, saw its sales dip by 4.4 per cent, year-on-year, according to official circulation statistics.
Says the Audit Bureau of Circulation – in its twice-yearly review of regional newspapers – the paper’s average sale during last year was 12,215, compared to the average for 2012, 12,773.
And compared to other regional daily and evening newspapers throughout the whole of the UK, it is believed to have been second only to Aberdeen’s Press and Journal (at 4.3 per cent down) in managing to keep its circulation dip to a relatively small percentage.
Other Scots local newspaper figures from ABC, which were published on Wednesday, include:
* Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser – average for 2013: 10,462, down 7.3 per cent on the average for 2012;
* Alloa & Hillcoats Advertiser – average for 2013: 7,067, down 1.1 per cent on the average for 2012;
* Annandale Herald and Moffat News – 3,560, up 31.4 per cent;
* Annandale Observer – 5,258, down 4.9 per cent;
* Arbroath Herald (incl Broughty Ferry, Carnoustie, Monifieth Guide & Gazette) – 6,906, down 10.9 per cent;
* Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald – 9,248, down six per cent;
* Arran Banner – 3,024, down 4.2 per cent;
* Ayr Advertiser – 3,137, down 1.6 per cent;
* Ayrshire Post – 17,665, down 6.4 per cent;
* Banffshire Journal – 4,021, down 8.6 per cent;
* Blairgowrie Advertiser – 1,691, down 6.2 per cent;
* Border Telegraph – 3,436, up two per cent;
* Caithness Courier – 5,245, down 8.8 per cent;
* Campbeltown Courier & Argyllshire Advertiser – 6,058, down 3.8 per cent;
* Central Fife Times & Advertiser – 4,724, down 4.3 per cent;
* Clydebank Post – 6,966, down 9.2 per cent;
* Cumbernauld News & Kilsyth Advertiser – 5,705, down 15 per cent;
* Cumnock Chronicle – 5,556, down 4.1 per cent;
* Dumbarton & Vale of Leven Reporter – 2,868, down 3.1 per cent;
* Dumfries & Galloway Standard (Fri) – 11,534, down 5.1 per cent;
* Dumfries & Galloway Standard (Wed) – 6,661, down 5.7 per cent;
* Dumfries Courier (free) – 22,425, up 0.4 per cent;
* Dunfermline Press & West of Fife Advertiser – 13,709, down 2.5 per cent;
* East Fife Mail – 7,272, down 14.6 per cent;
* East Kilbride News – 7,796, down 6.1 per cent;
* East Lothian Courier – 11,739, down 1.1 per cent;
* The Extra, Glasgow South & Eastwood (free) – 25,126, down ten per cent;
* Falkirk Herald – 19,682, down 7.9 per cent;
* Fife & Kinross Extra (free) – 23,204, down 10.8 per cent;
* Fife Free Press – 11,510, down 11.1 per cent;
* Fife Herald News & St Andrews Citizen – 9,129, down 11.3 per cent;
* Forres Gazette – 2,806, down 5.3 per cent;
* The Galloway News – 6,416, down 6.1 per cent; and
* Hamilton Advertiser – 14,232, down 12.3 per cent.
Catch up with the remainder of the Scottish local newspapers list, on Monday, on allmediascotland.com.
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulation, February 26 2014.
