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Stories on the eurozone debt crisis dominated the UK national press in the month of September, notching up more than twice the amount of coverage as the political party conferences, according to data from Precise.

The debt crisis received 1,691 mentions in broadsheet papers in the month of September compared to 807 mentions of the UK party conferences.

The second biggest story of September was the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. UK broadsheets published 1,244 mentions of the attacks in September. More than 60 per cent of those mentions occured in the first week of September.

Stories on Barack Obama and the ailing US economy garnered 327 mentions in the UK broadsheets.

The trend was similar in the tabloids (albeit with a less pronounced gap between the eurozone and the party conference coverage). Issues relating to the eurozone and the party conferences received 337 and 303 mentions, respectively. There were just over 50 mentions of the US economy in the UK tabloids over the same period.

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