EVERY one of Scotland’s paid-for local newspapers saw sales of their print editions decline, year-on-year – according to official figures.
The figures were announced on Wednesday, by the auditing body, ABC, in its six-monthly reporting of local and regional newspapers.
allmediascotland.com reported (here, on Wednesday) the audited performance of Scotland’s daily, evening and Sunday ‘regional newspapers’, such as the Sunday Herald (big increase in sales of its print edition) and the Edinburgh Evening News.
The figures are as follows (average for the 12 months up to December last year. All titles paid-for, unless otherwise stated. And, for one reason or another, not all titles, such as the Falkirk Herald, are listed):
Aberdeen Citizen – 52,891 – down 0.1 per cent, year-on-year (free)
Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – 9,447 – down 9.7 per cent, year-on-year
Alloa and Hillfoots Advertiser – 6,491 – down 8.2 per cent
Annandale Herald and Moffat News – 3,430 – down 3.7 per cent
Annandale Observer – 5,038 – down 4.2 per cent
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald – 8,346 – down 9.8 per cent
Arran Banner – 2,962 – down 2.1 per cent
Ayr Advertiser – 2,853 – down 9.1 per cent
Ayrshire Post – 17,016 – down 3.7 per cent
The Banffshire Advertiser – 2,754 – n/a
The Banffshire Herald -1,612 – n/a
Banffshire Journal – 3,657 – down 9.1 per cent
Blairgowrie Advertiser- 1,588 – down 6.1 per cent
Border Telegraph Scotland – 3,354 – down 2.4 per cent
Caithness Courier – 4,653 – down 11.3 per cent
Campbeltown Courier and Argyllshire Advertiser – 5,865 – down 3.2 per cent
Central Fife Times and Advertiser – 4,240 – down 10.2 per cent
Clydebank Post – 5,771 – down 17.2 per cent
Cumnock Chronicle – 4,939 – down 11.1 per cent
Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter – 2,429 – down 15.3 per cent
Dumfries and Galloway Standard (Friday edition) -10,928 – down 5.3 per cent
Dumfries and Galloway Standard (Wednesday edition) – 6,376 – down 4.3 per cent
Dumfries Courier – 21,660 – down 3.4 per cent (free)
Dunfermline Press and West of Fife Advertiser – 12,389 – down 9.6 per cent
East Kilbride News – 6,762 – down 13.3 per cent
East Lothian Courier -10,960 – down 6.6 per cent
Fife and Kinross Extra – 17,305 – down 25.4 per cent (free)
Forres Gazette – 2,588 – down 7.8 per cent
The Galloway News – 6,067 – down 5.4 per cent
Hamilton Advertiser – 12,553 – down 11.8 per cent
Helensburgh Advertiser – 4,460 – down 6.7 per cent
Highland News – 5,474 – down 7.7 per cent
The Huntly Express – 2,048 – n/a
Inverness Courier (Friday edition) – 10,627 – down 7.4 per cent
Inverness Courier (Tuesday edition) – 7,525 – down 8.4 per cent
Inverness Scene – 15,847 – down 11.8 per cent (free)
Irvine Herald and Kilwinning Chronicle – 5,099 – down 14.3 per cent
Irvine Times – 2,508 – down 6.3 per cent
John O’Groat Journal – 6,096 – down ten per cent
Kilmarnock Standard (Ayrshire Weekly News and Irvine Valley News) – 10,693 – down 8.8 per cent
Largs and Millport Weekly News – 4,033 – down 7.2 per cent
Lennox Herald – 7,139 – down 10.7 per cent
Lochaber News – 2,369 – down 10.3 per cent
North Star – 2,985 – down 12.9 per cent
Northern Scot – 12,004 – down 9.1 per cent
Northern Scot Mid Week Extra – 20,377 – up 7.5 per cent (free)
Northern Times – 3,410 – down 11.5 per cent
The Oban Times – 12,612 – down 6.9 per cent
The Orcadian – 8,201 – n/a
Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette – 4,292 – down 14.4 per cent
Paisley People – 4,515 – up 0.2 per cent (free)
Peeblesshire News – 3,981 – down 4.2 per cent
Perthshire Advertiser (Friday edition) – 8,516 – down 9.5 per cent
Perthshire Advertiser (Tuesday edition) – 4,107 – down 12.2 per cent
Ross-shire Journal – 6,024 – down 12 per cent
Rutherglen Reformer – 2,530 – down 10.8 per cent
Stirling News incorporating Alloa and Hillfoots Weekender – 15,612 – down 1.8 per cent (free)
Stirling Observer (Friday edition) – 2,506 – down 1.7 per cent
Stirling Observer (Wednesday edition) – 5,835 – down 5.7 per cent
Stranraer and Wigtownshire Free Press – 6,408 – down 4.3 per cent
Strathearn Herald – 1,521 – down 5.3 per cent
Strathspey and Badenoch Herald – 3,785 – down 4.4 per cent
West Highland Free Press – 7,152 – down 5.1 per cent
West Lothian Courier – 8,513 – down 12.4 per cent
Wishaw Press – 5,223 – down 7.6 per cent
Source: ABC, February 25 2015.
