The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) has now passed 59 million pages, with the total number of pages available being 59,044,005 at the time of writing.
There is unfortunately very little by way of new content for Scotland over the last 30 days, other than a few issues of some late 20th century titles, and for Ireland it looks like the Kerry Reporter from 1913 is the only new addition. A quick view of the upcoming releases tab shows that the site seems to be focussing almost exclusively on English based content for the foreseeable future.
Coverage for Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, remains by far the biggest Scottish omission post-1901, with Edinburgh also somewhat patchy in the 20th century. Hopefully the BNA can rectify this at some point in the near future.
Chris
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