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There are more than eighty local and regional papers. The only non-national papers with significant circulation are published in the evenings, when they do not compete with national papers, which appear in the mornings. Most local papers do not appear on Sundays, so that day dominance of national press is absolute. The Sunday Papers are so called because its the only day on which they appear. Until the laws were relaxed in the early 90s, newsagents were the only shops allowed to open on Sundays. National papers can be characterized as belonging to one of two distinct categories. The "quality papers", or "broadsheets", cater for the better educated readers. The popular papers or the "tabloids" sell to a much larger readership. They use larger headlines and write in a simpler style of english. Basically, broadsheets write about politics and serious news while tabloids write about sex and scandal.