Not-for-profit news website Open Democracy has been saved from closure after raising £250,000.

Every regional newspaper publisher audited by ABC reported double-digit increases in year on year web traffic in the last six months of 2012. Johnston Press, which announced plans to go digital-first in March 2012, saw average daily unique browsers rise 22.8 per cent to 555,584 and monthly unique increase 19.9 per cent to 9,708,450 year on year. Northcliffe (now part of Local World) reported daily traffic up 23 per cent to 371,969.

Every UK national press website audited by ABC was up year on year in December apart from the redesigned Metro, which saw traffic drop 36 per cent.

Mail Online surged to a new traffic record last month reaching 106m global ‘browsers’ according to ABC.

Mail Online reported more than 100m unique monthly browsers for the first time in August, according to the latest online traffic figures from ABC.

When it comes to combined daily print sales and digital readership - the Manchester Evening News is the top UK regional title.

It had a print circulation of 78,984 with a daily total web 'browsers' total of 99,042.

Every national newspaper website audited by ABC saw monthly unique browsers increase both month on month and year on year in July.

The Financial Times made much of the news last week that paid-for online subscriptions have now exceeded print circulation for th

Mail Online was the biggest and the fastest growing national newspaper website in June with 93.7m global ‘unique browsers'.