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Many of these papers have Sunday editions, some of which are quite different (especially ''The Observer'', which is considerably more moderate than ''The Guardian'', & the ''Mail On Sunday'', which is held to be a bit more credible than its daily counterpart). These papers often have a [[Sunday Leaked Document]]. There are also Sunday only papers, as mentioned earlier, not to mention numerous daily regional papers around the country from the ''Western Mail'' (Wales) to the ''Eastern Daily Press''. Most places in the UK also have at least one local newspaper, where newspaper journalists traditionally start (and in most cases end) their careers. These are generally published weekly, often on a Friday, although it can be on any day. These papers generally (or at least stereotypically) deal with mind-numbingly parochial topics such as road repairs, coffee mornings, local council affairs, etc. Perhaps best summed up with Linda Smith's favourite newspaper headline, "Worksop Man Dies Of Natural Causes". The ''Rochdale Observer'' (a typical example, best-known outside the titular town for being name-checked in ''[[Waterloo Road]]'') once ran a front page story about a ''food fight'', describing a chicken leg "arcing gracefully through the air" and featuring two interviewees arguing about the airspeed velocity of a Black Forest gateau. One said it was doing 10 mph and the other said 25.

* [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|African or European]]?

* On the day every other paper reported the assassination of JFK, a local paper's banner headline was "Edlington Man Has Ferret Stolen From Back Garden".

* The ''Dundee Courier'' (from the makers of the ''Sunday Post''); when news of the Titanic sinking reached it, its main headline was "Dundee Man Arrested". The Titanic story was a few pages in.