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The Yorkshire Post
A regional daily whose masthead calls it "Yorkshire's National Newspaper," and it means it. The Yorkshire Post traces its roots to the Leeds Intelligencer of 1754, took its current name in the 1860s after a group of Conservatives bought it, and is now published by Iconic Media, the former National World. It covers the whole county with its own politics, business and farming pages, giving a northern view of decisions made in Westminster. Its roots are Conservative, but its news pages are more local than tribal. A good read if you settle anywhere from Sheffield to the Dales and want more than city-level news.
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The Scotsman
Edinburgh's daily, and one of Scotland's two long-established quality papers alongside The Herald. The Scotsman was founded in 1817 as a weekly, became a daily in 1855, and is now published by Iconic Media, the former National World, which also owns The Yorkshire Post. Being based in the capital puts it close to Holyrood and Scottish business. Read it alongside Glasgow's Herald and the pro-independence National and you will have a good spread of the Scottish press.
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The Herald (Glasgow)
The place to start in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, a country whose news has its own parliament, its own laws and its own great political question. The Herald is a Glasgow daily from the Herald & Times Group, part of Newsquest, and covers Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament, in the depth that London papers rarely manage. Unlike its sister title The National, it is not a paper founded to make the case for independence, which makes it a steadier introduction to Scottish politics. Health, schools and policing work differently in Scotland, and this is where you will read about them.
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The National (Scotland)
A paper with a single cause, and open about it. The National launched in November 2014, two months after the independence referendum, as the first Scottish daily to back independence, and it is published by Newsquest alongside The Herald. It is the clearest window into the thinking of the Yes movement and the SNP's wider support. Read it next to a unionist-leaning paper and you will understand why the constitutional question still shapes almost every Scottish debate.
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Daily Record (Scotland)
Scotland's own red top, and a reminder that the Scottish press does not simply mirror London's. The Daily Record is owned by Reach, like the Mirror, and shares its Labour sympathies: in June 2024 its front page urged readers to kick the Conservative government out of office. It mixes Scottish politics with crime, celebrity and a great deal of football. Pick it up to see what working-class Scotland is reading, and compare its view of Holyrood with The National's.
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Western Mail (Wales)
Wales has its own parliament in Cardiff, the Senedd, and very little coverage of it in the London papers, so this is where Welsh news lives. The Western Mail is the long-established Welsh daily, published by Reach, and online it shares the WalesOnline site with the South Wales Echo and Wales on Sunday, which is how most people actually read it. Come for Senedd politics, Welsh rugby and local news from Cardiff to the valleys, and pair it with BBC Wales for broadcast coverage, including in Welsh.
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