Daily Record (Scotland)
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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 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 1895 and is now owned by Trinity Mirror. In 1971 The Daily Record became the first European newspaper to be printed with run-of-paper colour and was the first British national to introduce computer page make-up technology.
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 The campaign ended in failure when, in 2000, Section 28 was repealed by 99 votes to 17 against, with 2 abstentions.
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In August 2006, the paper launched two afternoon editions, one in Glasgow the other in Edinburgh [5]. Both papers initially had a cover price of 15p, but in January 2007, it was announced that the cover price would be dropped; at the same time, new editions being released in Aberdeen and Dundee [6].
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