UK national newspaper circulations fell across the board in July, new ABC figures show.
The Guardian recorded the smallest year-on-year circulation decline with a drop of five per cent to 130,484 copies.
The biggest year-on-year decline was reported by the Sunday People and Daily Star Sunday at 18 per cent.
The Sun remains the best-selling national newspaper with a circulation of 1.26m, only 100,000 copies above nearest rival the Daily Mail.
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The free Metro has the largest circulation of any UK newspaper at 1.42m.
National newspaper circulations July 2019 (ABC):
| Publication | Total circ. July 2019 | Year-on-year % change | Bulks |
| Metro FREE | 1,424,168 | -3% | |
| The Sun | 1,265,990 | -12% | 66,859 |
| Daily Mail | 1,164,319 | -8% | |
| The Sun on Sunday | 1,067,861 | -13% | 66,861 |
| The Mail on Sunday | 978,062 | -9% | |
| Evening Standard FREE | 845,840 | -5% | |
| The Sunday Times | 649,908 | -11% | 51,445 |
| Daily Mirror | 483,120 | -13% | |
| Sunday Mirror | 399,042 | -15% | |
| The Times | 376,975 | -12% | 53,455 |
| The Daily Telegraph | 327,879 | -12% | |
| Daily Express | 306,119 | -10% | |
| Daily Star | 305,069 | -14% | |
| Sunday Express | 267,268 | -10% | |
| The Sunday Telegraph | 257,034 | -12% | |
| i | 229,074 | -6% | 50,453 |
| Daily Star – Sunday | 183,127 | -18% | |
| Financial Times | 166,663 | -7% | 30,250 |
| The Observer | 157,553 | -7% | |
| Sunday People | 150,661 | -18% | |
| The Guardian | 130,484 | -5% | |
| Sunday Mail | 111,909 | -14% | |
| Daily Record | 110,415 | -11% | |
| Sunday Post | 95,015 | -17% | 538 |
| City AM FREE | 76,804 | -11% |
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