British Newspapers
In Britain, the national newspapers are very important. There are some very good local newspapers but most people read one of the main national newspapers. The most popular newspapers are the "tabloids". They usually have lots of big pictures and the articles are not very long. Tabloid papers do not have many serious articles, but they contain lots of stories about sex scandals, famous people and the royal family. They also have big sports sections and a lot of information about TV programmes. The two best-selling tabloid newspapers are The Sun and The Mirror. They sell around four or five million copies a day. Another tabloid is The Daily Mail, which is more serious than the other two tabloids. There are four main "quality" papers. They are much cigger and wider than the tabloids and they also have longer and more serious news articles with fewer pictures. Quality newspapers have fewer readers.