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 Sunday Times or controversial stories published in "The Sunday Times" include: In July 2011, "The Sunday Times" was implicated in the wider News International phone hacking scandal which primarily involved the "News of the World", a Murdoch tabloid newspaper published in the UK from 1843 to 2011. Former British prime minister Gordon Brown accused "The Sunday Times" of employing "known criminals" to impersonate him and obtain his private financial records. Brown's bank reported that an investigator employed by "The Sunday Times" repeatedly impersonated Brown to gain access to his bank account records. "The Sunday Times" vigorously denied these accusations and said that