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Daily Record building at Central Quay, Glasgow

The Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper, based in Glasgow. It is the best-selling daily paper in Scotland, with average sales of 451,672 as of December 2004 [1]. It was founded in 1842 and is now owned by Trinity Mirror. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... The Daily Record building at Anderston Quay, beside the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland Taken by Finlay McWalter on May 7th 2004. ... The Daily Record building at Anderston Quay, beside the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland Taken by Finlay McWalter on May 7th 2004. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... A tabloid is a newspaper — especially in the United Kingdom — that uses the tabloid format, which is roughly 23½ by 14¾ inches per spread. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August _ September - October - November - December- → Deaths in December • 30 Artie Shaw • 29 Julius Axelrod • 28 Jacques Dupuis • 28 Jerry Orbach • 28 Susan Sontag • 26 Reggie White • 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy • 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao • 23 Doug Ault • 19 Renata Tebaldi... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Trinity Mirror is a large United Kingdom newspaper and magazine publisher. ...

While its no-nonsense approach makes it immensely popular among its working class readership.^{[citation needed]} It is seen by many to be no more than a mouthpiece for the Scottish Labour Party, to whom it is extremely faithful (it even had its weekly agony aunt column written by Joan Burnie recommend to all its letterwriters to vote Labour as a solution to their various problems on the day of the 1997 General Election — a copy of the relevant edition — 1st May 1997 — are available for perusal at Glasgow's Mitchell Library archives). The Labour Party has, since the early twentieth century, been the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... : See State Library of New South Wales for its Mitchell Library section of Australiana. ...

This, combined with its crude sensationalistic journalism (the paper has a particular fascination with Glasgow gangsters), 'moral crusades' (which tend to involve the threat of constant negative publicity to inflame the public against their target) & gullibility of its readership (likened to comedian Jasper Carrott's lampooning of "Sun readers") has earned it the unflattering nickname of "the Daily Retard"^{[citation needed]}. Further, due to the paper's perceived allegiance to one half of the Old Firm football teams in Glasgow, it is widely known in the rest of the country as the "Daily Rangers". Jasper Carrott - (Audio tape cover) Jasper Carrott OBE (born Robert Davis, March 14, 1945) is an English comedian (declaring himself world famous in Birmingham). Born in Acocks Green, Birmingham, he was educated at Moseley School. ... The Sun, a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, has the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at around 3,200,000 copies daily in late-2004, but at one point in the past decade, almost 5...

Controversy

The Daily Record [2], along with Brian Souter [3], spear-headed the "Keep the Clause" campaign which aimed to prevent the Scottish Parliament from repealing Section 28. This law prevented local authorities from "promoting homosexuality" but in effect barred them from distributing any material which did not portray gay relationships as anything but abnormal. The campaign ended in failure when, in 2000, Section 28 was repealed by 99 votes to 17 against, with 2 abstentions. Brian Souter, born in Perth, Scotland is the co-founder of the Stagecoach Group, along with his sister, Ann Gloag. ... For the national legislative body up to 1707, see Parliament of Scotland. ... Sir Ian McKellen with Michael Cashman at the 1988 Gay Rights March on Manchester in protest of Section 28. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Following many editorial changes throughout the 1980s and the 1990s the newspaper took on a campaigning stance highlighting such modern menaces as knife culture and 'devil dogs' encouraging a sense of moral panic among its readership. A moral panic is a mass movement based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group of people, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. ...

See also

• List of newspapers in Scotland

List of newspapers in Scotland is a list of newspapers in Scotland. ...

External links

• Daily Record homepage

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