Via Press Gazette comes news that Britons spend £76 million on newspapers and mags every week:
British households spend a total of £76m on newspapers and magazines every week – the equivalent of £1.37 per person in the country per week.
People over 65 and those in Northern Ireland spend the most on them according to the latest Family Spending Survey, which shows that in 2006 the average British household spent £2 a week on newspapers and £1 on magazines, 0.65 per cent of households’ weekly spending.
The £3 average is up slightly from 2001/2 when families spent an average of £2.90 down from 2003/4 and 2004/5 when the figure was £3.10.
More: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=40100&c=1
(Not sure what ‘dead trees’ have to do with this? Wikipedia has a few lines on this here.)
