which is an indication of the comparative weakness of
regional identity inBritain.
Nearly 80% of all households buy a copy of one of the main national papers every day.
There are more than eighty local and regional daily papers; but the total circulation of all of them together is much less than the combined circulation of the national 'dailies'.
The only non-national papers with significant circulations are published in the evenings, when they do not compete with the national papers, which always appear in the mornings.