Paisley Daily Express

Infobox Newspaper
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type = Local Newspaper
format = Tabloid
foundation = 1874
price = £0.42
owners = Trinity Mirror
headquarters = 14 New Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, PA1 1YA
editor = Ann Dalrymple
circulation = 9,665 (Jan-Jun 2006) [http://abcpdfcerts.abc.org.uk/pdf/certificates/14427732.pdf Paisley Daily Express - All Editions (Mon-Sat) Standard Certificate of Circulation, 01-Jan-2007 to 01-Jul-2007] Audit Bureau of Circulations]
website = [http://www.icrenfrewshire.co.uk/pde http://www.icrenfrewshire.co.uk]

The "Paisley Daily Express" is a Scottish newspaper based in Paisley, covering the Renfrewshire area. The paper, which is currently owned by Trinity Mirror has its main offices on New Street in Paisley town centre. However, it is printed in Irvine, North Ayrshire.

The paper is sold in newsagents and general stores throughout Renfrewshire. The contents of the "Wee Express", as it is known locally (to distinguish it from the "Big Express" i.e. the "Scottish Daily Express") are typical of a local newspaper: local news, human interest stories, classified advertisements, intimations, church news, crosswords, wedding photographs, school photographs, local sports (mainly about the town's football team St Mirren), letters to the editor and so on.

Locally it is noted for its mistakes and inaccuracies. The most famous of these, which made it on to the pages of Private Eye magazine, was when in 1979 it described The Lord of the Rings as "Tolkien's classic tale of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island".

External links

* [http://www.paisleydailyexpress.co.uk/ New Paisley Daily Express homepage]

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