All about the United Kingdom’s national, regional and local press
The mass-market end of the British press, with little hard news but plenty of celebrity gossip, sensational crime reporting and loads of sport and entertainment coverage.
Daily Mirror
Daily red-top tabloid – the only national newspaper to support Labour consistently since 1945
Daily Sport (defunct – to be relaunched?)
Former stablemate of the Sunday Sport – an unapologetically trashy tabloid, with no pretensions at all to hard news coverage
Daily Star
Daily red-top tabloid launched in 1978 with the aim of competing for the Sun’s readership
Daily Star Sunday
Sunday companion to Express Newspapers’ red-top national tabloid the Daily Star, founded in 2002
Midweek Sport
Midweek companion title to the Sunday Sport, with a similar content based largely on soft porn
News of the World (defunct)
The English-speaking world’s biggest-selling Sunday newspaper until it closed in 2011 over the phone-hacking scandal
The People
Left-wing red-top tabloid published on Sundays. Very little to choose between it and its more successful sister paper, the Sunday Mirror
The Sun
The red-top par excellence, founded in 1964 and owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International
Sunday Mirror
Like its daily namesake, a left-wing populist tabloid with little in the way of hard news
Sunday Sport
Weekly tabloid notorious for its lack of news and its surfeit of “glamour” models and chatline ads
