Daily Record (Scotland)

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Daily Record building at Central Quay, Glasgow

The Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper, based in Glasgow. For many years, it was the best-selling daily paper in Scotland, with average sales of 451,672 as of December 2004 [1]. However, in August 2006, it was revealed that, in the previous month, sales of The Daily Record fell below those of The Scottish Sun for the first time ever.[2]. This was largely blamed on The Sun's massive reduction in price to 10p a copy, with the Record arguing that The Sun could not sustain such a low cover price and therefore its position would not last.

It was founded in 1842 and is now owned by Trinity Mirror.

The Daily Record [3], along with Brian Souter [4], spear-headed the "Keep the Clause" campaign which aimed to prevent the Scottish Parliament from repealing Section 28. This law prevented local authorities from "promoting homosexuality". The campaign ended in failure when, in 2000, Section 28 was repealed by 99 votes to 17 against, with 2 abstentions.

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List of newspapers in Scotland

[edit] External links

Daily Record homepage

Newspapers in Scotland	Image:Flag of Scotland.svg
Daily The Courier \| Daily Record \| The Daily Telegraph (Scottish edition) \| Greenock Telegraph \| The Herald \| Metro (Scottish edition) \| Paisley Daily Express \| The Press and Journal \| The Scotsman \| Scottish Daily Express \| Scottish Daily Mail \| Scottish Daily Mirror \| Scottish Sun \| The Times (Scottish edition)

Sunday Mail on Sunday Scotland \| Scotland on Sunday \| Scottish Sunday Express \| Sunday Herald \| Sunday Mail \| The Sunday Post \| The Sunday Times Scotland

Defunct Business am \| Edinburgh Courant \| Scottish Daily News \| Scottish Standard \| Sunday Scot \| Sunday Standard

See also: List of newspapers in Scotland and Scottish media