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British people are known as great newspaper readers. The most popular British newspapers are The Times, The Guardian, The Guardian Weekly, The Daily Telegraph, and The Independent and many others. Let’s have a look at some of them.
The Guardian (which was called The Manchester Guardian until 1959) is a liberal newspaper that focuses on such important social issues as education, medical reforms, the problems of the elderly, protection of the environment, etc. It is published from Monday to Saturday in London and Manchester.
The Guardian Weekly, which circulates worldwide, provides a compact digest of four newspapers. It contains articles from The Guardian and its Sunday sister paper The Observer, as well as reports, features and book reviews from The Washington Post and articles translated from a French newspaper, Le Monde.
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was the world’s oldest weekly mu sic newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine for musicians; in 2000 it was united with its «long-standing rival» New Musical Express.