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City AM fell by 15% year-on-year to 67,602, staying steady month-on-month compared to May, while the Sunday People fell by 21% and 6% respectively to 66,950.
The only newspapers to record year-on-year growth in November were Metro and the Financial Times, which both grew by 37%. The Mail on Sunday is currently in the centre of a sexism row around a story reporting that Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner had been accused of crossing and uncrossing in the House of Commons to distract Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The Financial Times was the only paid-for newspaper to grow its circulation year-on-year, by 7% to a total of 111,898. One English reference text, The family herbal, first published in 1754 and held by Dumbarton Oaks Library, remarks that the “inner bark” of the elder served as a “strong purge…known to cure dropsies [a term thought to refer to edema or congestive heart failure] when taken in time.
Most paid-for titles were able to keep their April circulations similar to March, with a drop of -1% the largest nationally and of -2% at the Sunday Mail the biggest overall. No UK national newspapers saw print circulation growth, whether year-on-year or month-on-month, in October. The rest of the UK’s national newspapers are back above the circulations of their worst Covid slump, which took place amid uncertainties about the future for the industry as the UK was told to stay at home at the start of the pandemic. The Daily Mail and Daily Mirror both marginally grew their print circulations in April compared to March, bucking the industry's usual downward trend.
We have also charted the longer-term change in ABC circulation over the past 20 years across the UK press.