Three national broadsheets saw their average month-on-month circulation increase in September.

The Financial Times (up 2.77 per cent to 287,895), The Guardian (up 0.33 per cent to 204,937) and the i (up 0.52 per cent to 282,995) saw circulations rise last month, according to the latest ABC figures.

The Times and The Independent, meanwhile, saw small declines of 0.25 per cent (to 406,711) and 0.68 per cent (to 81,245) month on month.