Written by Gavriel Hollander
The Sun remains the most read UK newspaper, according to data from the National Readership Survey.All national news groups were slightly down in terms of their total readerships compared with the last time the NRS published data in May, relating to the year to March 2013. A poll of 36,000 British adults found that just under 13.5m people read The Sun or The Sun (Sunday) either in print or online every week. The paper is 1.5m readers ahead of its nearest challenger, the Mail, which attracts 12m readers across its daily and Sunday print titles and the Mail Online.
| Title | Print (000s) | Website only (000s) | Combined (000s) |
| The Sun/The Sun (Sunday) | 12,400 | 1,076 | 13,476 |
| Daily Mail/The Mail on Sunday | 9,521 | 2,449 | 11,970 |
| Metro | 7,458 | 389 | 7,847 |
| Daily Mirror/Sunday Mirror/The People | 6,762 | 1,123 | 7,885 |
| The Guardian/The Observer | 2,781 | 2,475 | 5,257 |
| The Daily Telegraph/The Sunday Telegraph | 3,051 | 1,848 | 4,899 |
| The Times/The Sunday Times | 4,347 | 178 | 4,525 |
| London Evening Standard | 3,471 | 272 | 3,743 |
| The Independent/The Independent on Sunday/i | 2,607 | 1,056 | 3,662 |
| Daily Express/Sunday Express | 2,683 | 291 | 2,974 |
| Daily Star/Daily Star Sunday | 2,774 | 151 | 2,924 |
| Daily Record/Sunday Mail | 1,503 | 188 | 1,691 |
| Financial Times | 892 | 334 | 1,226 |
| The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday | 334 | 201 | 535 |
| The Herald/Sunday Herald | 296 | 136 | 4,322 |
| Yorkshire Post | 287 | 62 | 349 |
| Glasgow Evening Times | 214 | 49 | 263 |