While average UK magazine circulations fell down by 5.3% in the first half of this year some titles continue to buck the trend and grow sales.

News and current affairs titles saw a combined increase of 3.8% with Private Eye up 4.6 per cent to 228,264, its highest circulation since 1986.

Reader’s Digest has begun to recover its sales after years of rapid decline, growing 14.7 per cent to 153,175.