Like those Dundee and Aberdeen-based titles, sales of the Glasgow-based Herald newspaper also dropped, to an average of 43, 150 over the six months.

BBC: Scottish regional newspaper sales continue to slide

An off-shoot of the 215-year-old Glasgow-based Herald, now owned by the Scottish Media Group, the new five-section broadsheet aims to kick the London-based media into touch, and poach some readers from Edinburgh rival Scotland on Sunday along the way.

BBC: News | UK | Scotland heralds a new Sunday paper

The Sunday Herald, sister paper of the Glasgow-based daily, faced the worst figures of last year after it re-launched in a magazine format last January.

BBC: Scottish newspaper sales plunge