The Times was the only UK national newspaper to increase print circulation last month according to ABC.
Its average daily print sale increased by 1.3 per cent year on year to 396,671 in August 2014. Just under half of that increase was accounted for by an increase in free bulk copies from 19,862 a year ago to 22,145 last month.
The fastest falling UK-wide national daily was the Daily Star, which fell 14 per cent year on year.
Trinity Mirror’s Scottish titles had a particularly bad month: the Daily Record fell 16 per cent year on year to 212,182 and the Sunday Mail fell 17 per cent to 240,100.
UK national newspaper print circulation (source ABC)
| National Morning Popular | Avg sale | % change year on year | Free bulk copies |
| Daily Mirror | 960,964 | -8.13 | 45,000 |
| Daily Record | 212,182 | -15.99 | 4,986 |
| Daily Star | 471,629 | -13.93 | |
| The Sun | 2,108,387 | -6.64 | |
| Daily Express | 479,017 | -9.73 | |
| Daily Mail | 1,678,729 | -6.85 | 74,229 |
| The Daily Telegraph | 511,857 | -8.19 | |
| Financial Times | 210,182 | -11.05 | 22,261 |
| The Guardian | 177,827 | -6.23 | |
| i | 285,902 | -3.14 | 63,062 |
| The Independent | 62,568 | -8.92 | 17,108 |
| The Times | 396,671 | 1.28 | 22,145 |
| National Sunday Popular | Avg sale | % change year on year | Free bulk copies |
| Daily Star Sunday | 303,529 | -12.33 | |
| The Sun on Sunday | 1,684,101 | -12.13 | |
| Sunday Mail | 240,100 | -17.38 | 3,843 |
| Sunday Mirror | 954,309 | -10.25 | 44,250 |
| Sunday People | 379,779 | -10.70 | |
| The Mail on Sunday | 1,522,110 | -9.15 | 72,386 |
| Sunday Express | 426,899 | -9.80 | |
| Sunday Post | 214,781 | -12.20 | |
| Independent on Sunday | 104,488 | -5.15 | 53,334 |
| The Observer | 200,953 | -7.33 | |
| The Sunday Telegraph | 404,546 | -7.07 | |
| The Sunday Times | 803,097 | -2.83 | 11,408 |
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