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The '''''Daily Mail''''' is a Conservative, [[UK|British]]
First published in 1896 by [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe|Lord Northcliffe]], it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after ''[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]''.<ref name="pressgazette1">{{cite web|last=Gazette |first=Press |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48913&c=1 |title=First official figures give The Sun Sunday 3.2m circ |publisher=Press Gazette |date= |accessdate=2012-03-12}}</ref> Its sister paper '''''[[The Mail on Sunday]]''''' was launched in 1982. Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. The ''Daily Mail'' was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly literate "lower-middle class market resulting from [[Elementary Education Act 1870|mass education]], combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks",<ref name="Paul2001">{{citation |url=http://books.google.com/?id=3l_wD4Nq40YC&pg=PA83 |title=News and news sources |author=Paul Manning | isbn=978-0-7619-5797-3 | year=2001 | publisher=Sage}}</ref> and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day.<ref name="1millionaday">{{Citation|url=http://www.eurocosm.com/Application/Products/Original-newspapers/newspaper-history-GB.asp|title=Milestones in 20th Century Newspaper history in Britain|publisher=Eurocosm UK|accessdate=12 April 2008}}</ref>
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