Sun to move to Bishopbriggs?

Mail Move Sharpens Rumours at Sun

The removal vans will be soon outside the Scottish Daily Mail’s offices at the top of Renfield Street in Glasgow, ahead of a move tomorrow to a new base - at 20 Waterloo Place - near the city’s Central Station.
They have been bunking up with stv, which has itself moved to a new location, at Pacific Quay.
But what of other hacks, especially at the Scottish Sun, who are said to be fretting over rumours that they are to be shifted to the old Collins book offices in far-off Bishopbriggs when their Kinning Park HQ shuts next year.

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Sun set for possible move to Bishopbriggs

THERE was speculation this week that the Sun newspaper was getting set to move its Scottish editorial division to Bishopbriggs.
It's believed a move to the Harper Collins buildings in Westerhill Road has been considered by Sun bosses.
A spokeswoman for Harper Collins said: "We are currently talking to a number of companies regarding the vacant Norwich Union building, but no deals have been concluded yet."

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Scottish dailies suffer circulation falls

Every Scottish regional daily newspaper has recorded a fall in circulation over the past year, with Johnston Press's Edinburgh Evening News taking the biggest hit.
The title suffered a 7.5% year-on-year fall in circulation to 56,135, a drop of 4,569 copies over the past 12 months, according to figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations for the six months to the end of June 2006.

But none of Scotland's big city hitters was immune to the downturn in sales. The biggest regional evening title in Scotland, Newsquest's Glasgow Evening Times, only just managed to stay above 80,000.

The Evening Times' circulation fell 3,752 copies short of its June 2005 figure, down 4.4% year-on-year to 80,705.

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Record Staff Accept Argument About New Editions

Possible unrest at The Daily Record about the imminent launch of evening editions in Glasgow and Edinburgh - and, likely, elsewhere in Scotland - was yesterday averted by management assurances it would work constructively with the National Union of Journalists to sort out any possible problems.
Staff from the title met yesterday afternoon, with concerns about shift payments, plus the impact of extra shifts on people’s quality or work, uppermost in their minds.

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Record PM update

War as Scots get their own PM

The war of London afternoon freesheets started in a terrible rush on Friday, as the Standard attempted to beat Murdoch's challenger, due imminently. It will be bloody. But pause a second to look north as two not particularly free evening sheets called PMs arrive in Edinburgh and Glasgow, courtesy of the Daily Record. Call them a 'pugnacious' response to a Scottish Sun 10p price-cut campaign that has pushed the Record into second place but also see them as tanks on the lawns of Johnston Press in Edinburgh and Newsquest (alias Gannett of the US) in Glasgow.

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Publisher to launch Scottish p.m. papers

UK publisher Trinity Mirror said on Tuesday its Scottish Daily Record plans to launch two afternoon editions in Edinburgh and Glasgow, part of a resurgence in the British afternoon newspaper market.

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Scottish Sun website?

Why do they not have a Scottish Sun website like the English

There is a Scottish edition of the Sun newspaper which comes out in Scotland every day and is one of the most read papers in the country. But why do they put put Scottish related stories on the Sun website which has stories from the English paper.

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Scottish Sun Circulation breakdown

The Scottish Sun accounts for over 10% of national circulation
Scottish Circulation: 348,653 (ABC Sept 04-Feb 05)
Scottish Readership: 872,000 (NRS July-Dec 04)
In the last 10 years the Sun has increased sale, whilst the market leader has dropped.

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Sun is shining success but rival sounds like stuck Record

A new editor, an aggressive price war and a great series of exclusives have finally put the Scottish Sun ahead of the Record, writes Scottish Sun launch editor Jack Irvine.

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Digital editions take The Herald to new horizons

Online readership is pushing the reach of The Herald to new horizons, according to the latest available figures. More than 300,000 now read the paper in combined print and online formats every day, one of the largest single title audiences in Scotland.

Editor, Charles McGhee, said: "Today our web edition www.theherald.co.uk has added a new permanent feature to its home page allowing readers to keep track of our growing digital success by publishing our latest online statistics. These figures are updated weekly.
It also allows you to see at a glance the most read online stories from the news, sport, business and features sections of the paper. The information is updated in real time."

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Johnston to address regional pay

The Johnston Press chief executive, Tim Bowdler, said the pay of regional newspaper journalists "needs to be addressed".

Johnston Press employees at its South Yorkshire newspapers division recently ended industrial action after complaining they were underpaid compared with colleagues in other regions.

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NUJ PM meeting

Should Daily Record PM Editions be Welcomed?

A stormy meeting is expected at Central Quay in Glasgow today, when the Daily Record and Sunday Mail chapel of the National Union of Journalists get together to discuss the new afternoon editions (additions?) to their fold.

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Daily Record PM editions

Daily Record launches PM editions

The Scottish Daily Record, the biggest selling Scottish daily newspaper, is to launch two timed, geographical editions targeting the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The new editions, Daily Record GLASGOW PM and Daily Record EDINBURGH PM, will be on sale from 3pm each afternoon in over 1,000 outlets across both cities.

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Daily Record launches paid-for afternoon editions

The move comes just a week after ABC figures revealed the Scottish Sun had overtaken the Record as the top-selling newspaper in Scotland for the first time in its history.

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Daily Record Admits to Launch of Evening Editions

The Daily Record newspaper has finally admitted it is to launch an evening edition, with one geared towards Glasgow and another towards Edinburgh.

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Daily Record plans new 'PM' editions

THE Daily Record plans to open up a new front in Scotland's newspaper circulation war by launching afternoon versions in both Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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Evenings hit back at ‘playground bully’ Record

IT may give some of the boldest military generals goosebumps, but it clearly does not bother Mark Hollinshead. The managing director of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail last week opened up a war on three fronts in Scottish newspapers by confirming plans to launch afternoon Record editions in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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Daily Record launches afternoon commuter edition

Trinity Mirror's Daily Record is to launch an afternoon commuter edition priced 15p, which will be distributed in the centre of Glasgow from 28 August. It will feature abridged versions of the following day's news.

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Sun v Record

It’s The Sun wot won it … for now

IT was party time for The Scottish Sun last week as it ended the Daily Record’s 32-year reign as the best selling daily paper in Scotland.
The news that it sold 393,953 against the Record’s 383,785 in July ends an anomaly that has stuck in the craw of Team Murdoch for decades.

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Record feels heat of Scots Sun at its back

The day Rob Dalton turned up to meet me for lunch wearing an ill-fitting suit, black woolly gloves and a rolled-up copy of The Sun under his arm I knew he wasn't the really the man for the Kinning Park hot seat. I couldn't work out whether the paper was to help me identify him or whether he just hadn't got round to reading it.

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The price is right for the soaraway Sun

After 32 years as king of the tabloids in Scotland, the Record is now staring at a long battle to win back readers from Rupert Murdoch's daily. Circulation of the Record in Scotland last month was 384,378, down 7.3% year on year, while The Sun hit 393,953, up 11.8%.

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Johnstone Press

£100m record profit

Johnston Press, the Edinburgh-based media group, today shrugged off a weak advertising market to book a record operating profit of more than £100 million.

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Johnston profits hit by ad downturn

The UK’s second biggest regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press has reported profits hit by the tough advertising market.

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Johnston warns ads recovery not imminent

Scottish newspaper group Johnston Press today blamed a "sustained downturn" in advertising revenues for a 3% drop in half-year profits.

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Exciting times for Scotland's newspapers

Price wars, Evening editions, New editors, Production moves all happening within the industry these are exciting times for Scotland's Newspapers.