UK-wide sales of the Daily Record averaged 222,739 between the months of December last year and May this year – according to official figures.
Says the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the average UK sale of the title between those months was down 12.43 per cent on the same period a year previously.
Other December 2013 – May 2014 average UK sales, says ABC, were as follows:
* Daily Mirror, 964,985 – down 7.22 per cent on 12 months’ previously;
* Daily Star, 481,276 – down 10.03 per cent on 12 months’ previously;
* The Sun, 2,085,766 – down 9.14 per cent;
* Daily Express, 491,763 – down 6.81 per cent;
* Daily Mail, 1,728,963 – down 5.21 per cent;
* Daily Telegraph, 528,138 – down 3.45 per cent;
* Financial Times, 228,532 – down 15.76 per cent;
* Guardian, 196,245 – down 0.44 per cent;
* i, 293,235 – down 2.18 per cent;
* Independent, 64,621 – down 14.94 per cent;
* Times, 389,492 – down 1.79 per cent;
* Daily Star – Sunday, 297,707 – down 12.48 per cent;
* The Sun (Sunday), 1,711,980 – down 10.68 per cent;
* Sunday Mail, 249,791 – down 13.38 per cent;
* Sunday Mirror, 933,914 – down 9.73 per cent;
* Sunday People, 375,381 – down 11.26 per cent;
* Sunday Express, 428,432 – down 8.14 per cent;
* Sunday Post, 212,253 – down 11.18 per cent;
* Mail on Sunday, 1,568,018 – down 7.46 per cent;
* Independent on Sunday, 101,311 – down 11.35 per cent;
* Observer, 217,150 – down 3.45 per cent;
* Sunday Telegraph, 418,379 – down 2.26 per cent; and
* Sunday Times, 829,183 – down 5.16 per cent.
Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations, June 6 2014.
