Sunday Mirror Sunday Mirror The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the "Daily Mirror". It began life in 1915 as the Sunday Pictorial and was renamed the "Sunday Mirror" in 1963. In 2016 it had an average weekly circulation of 620,861, dropping markedly to 505,508 the following year. Competing closely with other papers, in July 2011, on the second weekend after the closure of the "News of the World", more than 2,000,000 copies sold, the highest level since January 2000. The paper launched as the "Sunday Pictorial" on 14 March 1915. Lord Rothermere – who owned the paper – introduced
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