The British Newspaper Archives (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has just passed 55 million pages, with some 55,034,763 pages available at the time of writing:
Beyond the additions for England and Wales (listed at www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/recently-added/30days) there has been very little additional content for Scotland and Ireland added over the last 30 days:
Scotland
Edinburgh Evening News
1951, 1954, 1956
Irvine Herald
1994
Strathearn Herald
1993
Galloway News and Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser
1993
Ireland
Munster Tribune
1958, 1960
East Galway Democrat
1920, 1937
It is interesting, however, to see the increase in overseas content becoming available:
Overseas
Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore)
1939-1940
Barbados Herald
1879-1896
St. Kitts Daily Express
1906, 1909-1915
Australian Spiritualist
1881
Antigua Standard
1883-1890
Colonial Standard and Jamaica Despatch
1865, 1867, 1870, 1872, 1874, 1879
Mirror (Trinidad & Tobago)
1899-1900, 1912-1913, 1916
Voice of St. Lucia
1889
Barbados Agricultural Reporter
1896, 1911-1922
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Chris
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