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Four of the top five best-performing news sites reported a decline in traffic in June, with the Telegraph online hardest hit.

For the second consecutive month, ITV’s revenues were down on 2014, dropping -10.7% to almost £97m in June, whilst Channel 4 was up almost 30%.

The final ever Top Gear to feature the unholy trinity of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May was eventually broadcast by BBC Two this month, bowing out with 6.9 million viewers.

According to UKOM data recently released by comScore MMX, the UK’s desktop-only online population continued to steady at 45.1 million unique visitors in the month of May.

The start of the summer has seen most newspaper sales decline, with only a few titles bucking the trend according to the latest ABC circulation results.

While April was a strong month for UK commercial TV broadcasters, just one recorded an increase in network revenue in May, with total terrestrial channels down -3.6% on the previous year.

Britain’s Got Talent, The C-Word and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell were among some of the most-watched programmes in May.

Telegraph Online was up by 23% in May to close in on the 5 million mark, while a 16.3% rise in average unique daily browsers netted Trinity Mirror Nationals an extra 610,000.

Perhaps as a result of the election, May was a reasonably stable month for national newspapers – with a rare sight of (very modest) growth in the Sunday market. Here are Newsline’s key take-outs.

The Daily Mail continues its unrivalled dominance with a combined print, PC and mobile readership of 29 million, with mobile now accounting for a significantly higher proportion of its readership than print and PC.