The Courier & Advertiser, more commonly known as simply The Courier, is a broadsheetnewspaper published by DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland. It is printed in six daily editions: the Early edition, and regional editions for Fife, north-east Fife, Perth, Angus and Dundee.
Established in 1801 as the Dundee Courier & Argus, the entire front page of The Courier used to contain classified advertisements - a traditional newspaper format for many years. As one of the UK's biggest selling morning regional newspapers http://www.abc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=nav/abc&noc=y with daily circulation of around 80,000 http://www.abc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=nav/abc&noc=y, The Courier was unusual in maintaining this format until 1992, when it adopted a conventional headline-news format.