Sales of the Sun were boosted today in some newsagents by those purchasing copies in bulk and binning them in protest against the paper’s “Don’t chuck Britain in the Cor-bin” front page.

One Twitter user posted a picture of several copies of the Sun, the Daily Mail and the Express with the caption: “Just bought local newsagents entire stock of hate wanking rags. Will be burning shortly…”

The Scottish author John Niven posted a video of copies of the Sun and the Mail burning a bin with the message: “This morning I reignited the British spirit with the newsagents [sic] entire stock of Suns and Daily Mails.”