The Manchester Evening News website has nearly doubled its traffic in a year, according to the latest website ABCs.

The MEN website recorded an average 498,010 daily unique users last month, up 94 per cent, and is narrowly trailing DailyStar.co.uk on 508,366 (up 44 per cent on April 2014).

Its sister Trinity Mirror title the Liverpool Echo saw its website's figures increase by 92 per cent to 393,571 and overtake the London Evening Standard's 391,422 (up 65 per cent).