The Guardian will become the most expensive mainstream ‘quality’ daily newspaper in the UK from Saturday, 12 January. The weekday edition is to rise from £1.20 to £1.40 and the weekend Saturday edition will rise from £2.10 to £2.30. This compares with the The Times (£1/£1.50), The Daily Telegraph (£1.20/£2) and The Independent (£1.20/£1.60). In November, print sales of The Guardian were down 10.1% to 203,592 a day on average.