The Sunday Post

Infobox Newspaper
name =
type = Sunday newspaper
format = Tabloid
price = £0.90
owners = DC Thomson & Co Ltd.
foundation = 1914
headquarters = Dundee
circulation=415,413 (August 2007)
website = [http://www.thesundaypost.co.uk/ The Sunday Post]

"The Sunday Post" is a weekly newspaper published in Dundee, Scotland by DC Thomson, and characterised by a 'folksy' mix of news, sentimental stories and short features. The paper was founded in 1914 and has a wide circulation across Scotland and parts of Northern England. 2007 has seen DC Thomson launch an advertising drive for "The Sunday Post", primarily utilised on buses, in which the exclamation "Strip Sensation!" is seen by a picture of the folded paper displaying its masthead; next to this is the tagline punning on the exclamation: "A thoroughly decent read". In the 1950s, when the paper was confined largely to Scotland, sales of the Sunday Post in the country were so high that it was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the newspaper with the highest per capita readership penetration of anywhere in the worldFact|date=August 2008.

Regular columns include:
*"My Week" by Francis Gay (a generic character), featuring sentimental stories and a weekly short poem
*"The Honest Truth" - question and answer celebrity interview feature
*"Raw Deal" - consumer problems
*"The Doc Replies" - medical advice
*"Can You Do Me a Favour?" - readers asking if fellow readers can help them in their quest to find an item
*"The Queries Man" - readers send in questions on a range of topics, which an un-named person answers
*"The Fun Section" featuring comic strips such as:
**Oor Wullie
**The Broons

Comic strips which no longer appear include:
**Nosey Parker Our Muddling Meddler
**Nero and Zero The Rollicking Romans

A colour magazine supplement named "post plus" is included on the first Sunday of each month, featuring celebrity profiles, recipes, puzzles, competitions and a short fiction piece.

With its wide circulation and longevity, "The Sunday Post" may have set a model for written Scots and its spelling that was more widely-read and understandable than the literary Lallans of the Scottish Renaissance poets Fact|date=February 2007.

ee also

*"The People's Friend"
*List of newspapers in Scotland
*List of DC Thomson Publications

External links

* [http://www.thesundaypost.co.uk/ The Sunday Post's website]