Advantages: A real scottish newspaper with all the trimmings!
Disadvantages: No in-depth international issue stories

...**What Is It?** The Sunday Post is a national, Scottish tabloid newspaper which is avalible every Sunday. Even though it is a Scottish newspaper it can be bought from the north of england newsagents. **History Behind It?** The Sunday Post was established by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd who famously founded huge scottish newspapers and comics like the Beano, Dandy, Jackie, Shout, Evening Telegraph and the Courier which are all house hold names. The Sunday Post was founded in 1914 and has been going very strong since. Unlike a lot of newspapers of the era, it concentrated on more local news rather than national. In total it has 52 issues a year and has been for 93 years so that is a staggering 4,836 issues altoghether. Not bad ay. **Editor** The editor is David Pollington. He has been editor since 2001 and before that was deputy... Read review

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Advantages: Weighty, wide variety of sections, quality of writers
Disadvantages: Right-wing, unionist, owned by Murdock

...Since learning to read I have read the Sunday Times every week. My father has bought it every Sunday, almost religiously, even before I came on the scene, so I had little choice. But now I’m a student, away from home and still buying it for myself. At this point I would like to point out that I completely disagree with the politics of The Sunday Times. I believe Rupert Murdock to be almost as big and evil a megalomaniac as the villain based on him in the Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies". But I watch films made by Fox Studios, I watch the Simpsons, X-Files and Sky Sports, so to not buy The Sunday Time sin protest would be very hypocritical. The Sunday Times is a very big paper. Along with the conventional main section seen every day of the week is a wealth of other sections. For £1 it represents very good value. If I... Read review

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Advantages: Pull out sports section
Disadvantages: TV listing in magazine

...Not sure if it is a first for a newspaper, but a definite first in a tabloid newspaper. A pull out sports section. So the lady in the house can read the gossip (a lot in the Sunday People) and the male can read the sports section. ( or vice versa). There does seem to be a lot of gossip pages in the newspaper, although isn't that what Sunday papers are about? The Sunday People also has an excellent section on gardening and animal welfare, for which the RSPCA have commended the paper for doing. Also included in the newspaper are the typical TV reviews written by Gary Bushell (love him or hate him) an Agony aunt page which I would put has being between News of the World and The Sunday Mirror. Richard Bacon is the resident film critic. His reveiws seem to be more about his experience on a subject than the fim itself. The free magazine... Read review

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Advantages: Oor Wullie and The Broons
Disadvantages: Everything other than Oor Wullie and The Broons

...In my house we do not get Post on a Sunday and quite frankly this includes the Sunday Post. It might be as Scottish as Haggis but so is Jimmy Somerville and no one can claim that he is any good. To be honest there are a couple of things I like about the Sunday Post....Oor Wullie and The Broons. Yup two comic strips that are more news worthy than the rest of the paper. What else would you expect from D.C. Thomson the publishers of such high brow material as the Beano and the Dandy? I was once told that the Sunday Post officially had the highest circulation in the world per head of population. I was also told by the same person that the paper also had (officially they insisted but as to who these officials were they could not say) the least amount of news per page than any other newspaper in the world. I do not know if the above... Read review

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