In the latest set of newspaper ABCs for September, the Indy was up 0.76% for the month to 264,594.
There was good news for its nearest rival, The Guardian, which is up 3.24% for September to 376,314, although it is still down 3.18% year on year. The paper recently said that it may not launch its mid-sized version until 2006, putting it in danger of losing more ground to its left-of-centre rival.
There was more good news for Guardian Sunday sister title The Observer, up 7.21% to 462,256. Comparatively, The Indy's Sunday title was slightly down, around 2% to 214,188.
The Financial Times was the star performer among the daily qualities, up 7.7% to 437,717.
The Times, which is reported to be going fully compact by Christmas, had a reasonable month, up 1.98% to 660,960 and up 3.22% on the year. Its Sunday sister The Sunday Times was up 3.35%, reaffirming its place as the UK's biggest-selling quality Sunday at 1,369,765.
The Daily Telegraph was down 1.27% to 900,702. It remains to be seen what the full extent of the Barclay brothers' plans for the title are.
Editorial changes have already begun and managing director Hugo Drayton was ousted earlier this week. The paper is down 1.81% year on year, with its Sunday sister also down 0.71% to 701,857 for the period. The brothers' Scottish title, The Scotsman, was also down 2.86% to 70,435.
It was a bleak month for the tabloids, with the Daily Mirror, the Daily Star and The Sun were all down on the month. The Mirror is down 1.51% to 1,793,718, the Daily Star 2.13% to 899,773 and The Sun down just 0.81% to 3,336,422.
In the mid-markets, The Daily Express is down 0.04% to 960,320 and the Daily Mail is up 1.49% to 2,442,875.
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