diff --git a/recipes/eluniversalimpresa.recipe b/recipes/eluniversalimpresa.recipe
deleted file mode 100644
index 331da13a86..0000000000
--- a/recipes/eluniversalimpresa.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class ElUniversalImpresaRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    __license__ = 'GPL v3'
-    __author__ = 'kwetal'
-    language = 'es_MX'
-    version = 1
-
-    title = u'El Universal (Edici\u00F3n Impresa)'
-    publisher = u'El Universal'
-    category = u'News, Mexico'
-    description = u'News from Mexico'
-
-    remove_empty_feeds = True
-    remove_javascript = True
-
-    INDEX = 'http://www.eluniversal.com.mx'
-
-    extra_css = '''
-                body{font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;}
-                '''
-
-    conversion_options = {'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': 'en',
-                          'publisher': publisher, 'linearize_tables': True}
-
-    def parse_index(self):
-        soup = self.index_to_soup(
-            'http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/edicion_impresa.html')
-        index = []
-
-        table = soup.find('table', attrs={'width': '500'})
-        articles = []
-        for td in table.findAll('td', attrs={'class': 'arnegro12'}):
-            a = td.a
-            a.extract()
-            title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-            url = self.INDEX + a['href']
-            description = self.tag_to_string(td)
-            articles.append({'title': title, 'date': None,
-                             'url': url, 'description': description})
-
-        index.append(('Primera Plana', articles))
-
-        for td in table.findAll(lambda tag: tag.name == 'td' and len(tag.attrs) == 0):
-            articles = []
-            feedTitle = None
-            for a in td.findAll('a'):
-                if not feedTitle:
-                    feedTitle = self.tag_to_string(a)
-                    continue
-
-                title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-
-                url = self.INDEX + a['href']
-                articles.append({'title': title, 'date': None,
-                                 'url': url, 'description': ''})
-
-            index.append((feedTitle, articles))
-
-        return index
-
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        if url.find('wcarton') >= 0:
-            return None
-
-        main, sep, id = url.rpartition('/')
-
-        return main + '/vi_' + id
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        table = soup.find('table')
-        table.extract()
-
-        for p in soup.findAll('p'):
-            if self.tag_to_string(p).strip() == '':
-                p.extract()
-
-        tag = soup.find('font', attrs={'color': '#0F046A'})
-        if tag:
-            for attr in ['color', 'face', 'helvetica,', 'sans-serif', 'size']:
-                tag[attr] = ''
-                del tag[attr]
-            tag.name = 'h1'
-
-        return soup
diff --git a/recipes/la_jornada.recipe b/recipes/la_jornada.recipe
index 99147871ea..12bb968064 100644
--- a/recipes/la_jornada.recipe
+++ b/recipes/la_jornada.recipe
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ try:
     from urllib.parse import urlparse, urlunparse, parse_qs
 except ImportError:
     from urlparse import urlparse, urlunparse, parse_qs
-from calibre import strftime
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 
@@ -30,7 +29,6 @@ class LaJornada_mx(BasicNewsRecipe):
     use_embedded_content = False
     language = 'es_MX'
     remove_empty_feeds = True
-    cover_url = strftime("http://www.jornada.unam.mx/%Y/%m/%d/portada.pdf")
     masthead_url = 'http://www.jornada.unam.mx/v7.0/imagenes/la-jornada-trans.png'
     publication_type = 'newspaper'
     extra_css             = """
diff --git a/recipes/milenio.recipe b/recipes/milenio.recipe
deleted file mode 100644
index aabc707434..0000000000
--- a/recipes/milenio.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2010, Brendan Sleight <bms.calibre at barwap.com>'
-'''
-impreso.milenio.com
-'''
-from calibre import strftime
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-import datetime
-
-
-class Milenio(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = u'Milenio-diario'
-    __author__ = 'Bmsleight'
-    language = 'es_MX'
-    description = 'Milenio-diario'
-    oldest_article = 10
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = False
-    index = 'http://impreso.milenio.com'
-
-    keep_only_tags = [
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'content'})
-    ]
-
-    def parse_index(self):
-        # "%m/%d/%Y"
-        # http://impreso.milenio.com/Nacional/2010/09/01/
-        totalfeeds = []
-        soup = self.index_to_soup(
-            self.index + "/Nacional/" + datetime.date.today().strftime("%Y/%m/%d"))
-        maincontent = soup.find('div', attrs={'class': 'content'})
-        mfeed = []
-        if maincontent:
-            for itt in maincontent.findAll('a', href=True):
-                if "/node/" in str(itt['href']):
-                    url = self.index + itt['href']
-                    title = self.tag_to_string(itt)
-                    description = ''
-                    date = strftime(self.timefmt)
-                    mfeed.append({
-                        'title': title, 'date': date, 'url': url, 'description': description
-                    })
-        totalfeeds.append(('Articles', mfeed))
-        return totalfeeds