diff --git a/recipes/economist.recipe b/recipes/economist.recipe
index a545885edb..67f0dd59aa 100644
--- a/recipes/economist.recipe
+++ b/recipes/economist.recipe
@@ -59,23 +59,26 @@ class Economist(BasicNewsRecipe):
     oldest_article = 7.0
     resolve_internal_links = True
     remove_tags = [
-        dict(name=['script', 'noscript', 'title', 'iframe', 'cf_floatingcontent']),
-        dict(
-            attrs={
+        dict(name=['script', 'noscript', 'title', 'iframe', 'cf_floatingcontent', 'aside', 'footer']),
+        dict(attrs={
                 'class': [
                     'dblClkTrk', 'ec-article-info', 'share_inline_header',
-                    'related-items', 'main-content-container', 'ec-topic-widget'
+                    'related-items', 'main-content-container', 'ec-topic-widget', 
+                    'teaser', 'blog-post__bottom-panel-bottom', 'blog-post__comments-label',
+                    'blog-post__foot-note'
                 ]
             }
         ),
-        {
-            'class': lambda x: x and 'share-links-header' in x
-        },
+        dict(attrs={'class': lambda x: x and 'share-links-header' in x.split()}),
+        dict(attrs={'class': lambda x: x and 'teaser--wrapped' in x.split()}),
     ]
     keep_only_tags = [dict(name='article', id=lambda x: not x)]
     no_stylesheets = True
-    preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile('</html>.*', re.DOTALL), lambda x: '</html>')]
-
+    preprocess_regexps = [
+      (re.compile('</html>.*', re.DOTALL), lambda x: '</html>'),
+      (re.compile('<h1 class="flytitle-and-title__body".*?><span class="flytitle-and-title__flytitle".*?>',re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda x: '<h2><br />'),
+      (re.compile('</span><span class="flytitle-and-title__title".*?>',re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda x: '</h2><h1><span class="flytitle-and-title__title">')      
+    ]
     # economist.com has started throttling after about 60% of the total has
     # downloaded with connection reset by peer (104) errors.
     delay = 1