The ''Sunday Mail'' is a Scottish tabloid

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published every Sunday. It is the sister paper of the '' Daily Record'' and is owned by

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'' was unable to use the title ''Sunday Mail'' when it launched a Sunday edition in 1982 because of the Scottish paper.

History

The paper was founded in Glasgow in 1919. In 1922, Gomer Berry (later 1st Viscount Kemsley) bought the ''Sunday Mail'', its sister paper the '' Daily Record'', and another newspaper, the ''

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'', for £1 million. He formed a controlling company known as Associated Scottish Newspapers Ltd. Kemsley sold all three papers to the London-based

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in 1955. In September 1999, when Editor Jim Cassidy was sacked, the paper's circulation was 767,000. Its nearest rival was the Scottish edition of the ''

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'' which sold around 350,000 copies at that time. As of December 2016, the ''Sunday Mail'' had a circulation of 172,513. This decreased to 166,195 in February 2017, 159,880 in April 2017, 152,892 in July 2017 and 104,608 in March 2020. On 12 May 2019, the ''Sunday Mail'' announced its support for the

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in the upcoming EU elections, becoming the first major publication in Scotland to back the party, despite disagreeing with the Greens' pro-independence stance.

Editors

:1973: Clive Sandground :1981: Endell Laird :1988: Noel Young :1991: Jim Cassidy :1999: Peter Cox :2000: Allan Rennie :2009: Jim Wilson :2016: Brendan McGinty

Current news and features journalists

* Norman Silvester * Craig McDonald * John Ferguson (political editor) * Julie-Anne Barnes * Heather Greenaway * Allan Bryce (sports editor)

Former news and features journalists

* Marion Scott * Charles Lavery *Andrew Gold *Angus McLeod (political editor) *Russell Findlay * Brian Lironi (political editor) *John Nairn *Bill Aitken *Alex Scotland * Steve Dinneen *Jamie Livingstone *Noreen Barr *Andy Sannholm *Suzie Cormack *Victoria Raimes *Archie McKay * Gavin Goodwin *Nick Hunter (assistant editor) *John Finlayson

Former columnists

* Alex Scotland * Elaine C. Smith *

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* Gary Keown *Scott Robinson * Melanie Reid

References

External links

''Sunday Mail'' homepage
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