Express plummets below 1m sales

LONDON - Official ABC figures due for release later this week will show the Richard Desmond-owned Daily Express slipping below the one million mark.

The leaked figures obtained by ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 indicate that the Express's circulation has fallen to 979,000, a slide of 6.8 per cent year on year and a 2.2 per cent decline from last month's figure of 1,000,388 However, the Express's rival the Daily Mail has posted a 5.3 per cent year-on-year increase to 2,479,000.

The Sunday Express also saw a significant drop, almost 10 per cent year on year, to 879,000, while rival The Mail on Sunday stretched its lead by 2.7 per cent to 2,386,000.

The Express group's losses follow a fierce campaign by the Daily Mail, based around Desmond's ownership of soft-porn titles. The Mail's year-on-year increase was also aided by the ABC's decision to use a lower circulation figure for last January.

Northern & Shell argued it had opted to drop much of the paper's bulk circulation from the audit, including 20,000 copies in Spain. 'Rosie Boycott has only recently departed and Chris Williams has been in the job for a week,' Stan Myerson, Express group's managing director, said.

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