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in 1961, along with the '' Daily Herald'', which eventually became ''The Sun''. It switched from

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to tabloid on September 22, 1974. The ''Sunday People'' is now published by

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, and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the ''

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'', it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544. By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364 and by August 2020 to 125,216.

Notable events

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* Garry Bushell had a two-page television opinion column, "Bushell on the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the '' Daily Star Sunday''. *

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Editors

*1881: Sebastian Evans *1890: Harry Benjamin Vogel *1900: Joseph Hatton *1913: John Sansome *1922: Robert Donald *1924: Hannen Swaffer *1925: Harry Ainsworth *1957: Stuart Campbell *1966: Bob Edwards *1972: Geoffrey Pinnington *1982: Nicholas Lloyd *1984: Richard Stott *1985: Ernie Burrington *1988: John Blake *1989: Wendy Henry *1989: Ernie Burrington (acting) *1990: Richard Stott *1991: Bill Hagerty *1992: Bridget Rowe *1996: Brendon Parsons *1998:

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*2003: Mark Thomas *2008: Lloyd Embley *2012: James Scott *2014: Alison Phillips *2016: Gary Jones *2018: Peter Willis *2020: Paul Henderson *2021: Gemma Aldridge *2024: Caroline Waterston

References

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