The Sun (United Kingdom) The Sun (United Kingdom) The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. As a broadsheet, it was founded in 1964 as a successor to the "Daily Herald"; it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owners. It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Since "The Sun on Sunday" was launched in February 2012, the paper has been a seven-day operation. "The Sun" previously had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the
The Comet (newspaper) 2016—since then Matt Adams has been acting editor. The paper was formed in May 1971 as the successor to the long-established "Hertfordshire Pictorial", a paid-for weekly whose three editions covered Letchworth and Baldock, Hitchin and Stevenage. The free paper was originally named the "Stevenage Sun", "Hitchin Sun" or "Letchworth Sun", depending on the edition. The "Comet" name was adopted after less than a month after the national newspaper "The Sun" threatened legal action. Subsequent attempts by the "Surrey Comet" to prevent the "Comet" name being used were seen off. The "Comet"s average circulation, counting all three editions together, was 66,791