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Sunday People

Tabloid newspaper published in London

Field	Value
name	Sunday People
image	The_Sunday_People.jpg
caption	Front page on 4 December 2016
type	Sunday newspaper
language	English
format	Red top
founded	16 October 1881
owners	Reach plc
headquarters	London
editor	Caroline Waterston
circulation	38,108
circulation_date	September 2025
circulation_ref
ISSN	0307-7292
website

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as The People on 16 October 1881.

At one point owned by Odhams Press, The People was acquired along with Odhams by the Mirror Group in 1961, along with the Daily Herald, which eventually became The Sun. It switched from broadsheet to tabloid on September 22, 1974.

The Sunday People is now published by Reach plc, and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the News of the World, it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544. By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364 and by August 2020 to 125,216.

Notable events

In March 1951 the Sunday People (then known as The People) published an article claiming that the British military had allowed Iban mercenaries to collect scalps from human corpses in the ongoing Malayan Emergency war. British colonial officials saw this article as a potential propaganda threat and drew plans to release a rebuttal in the Straits Times. The paper's claims would later be proven true following the British Malayan headhunting scandal.

Notable columnists

Garry Bushell had a two-page television opinion column, "Bushell on the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the Daily Star Sunday.
Jimmy Greaves, the former England footballer
Fred Trueman, former England cricketer and fast bowler
Fred Harrison, an established economics author of 19 books
Dean Dunham, consumer columnist and leading authority on Consumer protection.

Editors

1881: Sebastian Evans
1890: Harry Benjamin Vogel
1900: Joseph Hatton
1913: John Sansome
1922: Robert Donald
1924: Hannen Swaffer
1925: Harry Ainsworth
1957: Stuart Campbell
1966: Bob Edwards
1972: Geoffrey Pinnington
1982: Nicholas Lloyd
1984: Richard Stott
1985: Ernie Burrington
1988: John Blake
1989: Wendy Henry
1989: Ernie Burrington (acting)
1990: Richard Stott
1991: Bill Hagerty
1992: Bridget Rowe
1996: Brendon Parsons
1998: Neil Wallis
2003: Mark Thomas
2008: Lloyd Embley
2012: James Scott
2014: Alison Phillips
2016: Gary Jones
2018: Peter Willis
2020: Paul Henderson
2021: Gemma Aldridge
2024: Caroline Waterston

References

(12 November 2024). "Sunday People". [[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK).
"Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century".
(30 January 2009). "The People to make six staff redundant". The Guardian.
Sweney, Mark. (14 February 2014). "The Sun enjoys post-Christmas sales bounce with 8.3% rise". The Guardian.
"Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year".
"Audit Bureau of Circulation: Sunday People".
Poole, Dan. (2023). "Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency: The Atrocity and Cover-Up". Pen and Sword Military.
(28 March 2010). "CELEBRITY X FACTOR". People.
Greenslade, Roy. (6 March 2016). "Alison Phillips: 'The New Day is about looking behind the news'". The Guardian.
Waterson, Jim. (28 April 2019). "Gary Jones on taking over Daily Express: 'It was anti-immigrant. I couldn't sleep'". The Guardian.
(28 June 2021). "'Heart of the Daily Mirror' and Pride of Britain founder Peter Willis dies aged 54". Daily Mirror.
(28 June 2021). "Pride of Britain founder and Mirror man of 23 years Peter Willis dies suddenly aged 54". Press Gazette.
(29 June 2021). "Peter Willis, Pride of Britain founder and ex-Mirror editor, dies at 54". The Guardian.

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