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The Daily National newspaper market saw a return to the norm after last months slight increase of 0.1%, as the Total Daily market fell 0.9% PoP.

So Richard Desmond said last month that the Express titles (including the Daily Star) are not and were never up for sale. This is a totally mischievous remark from someone who revels in controversy…

According to a Reuters report late yesterday, Daily Mail & General Trust is planning its own new mass-market Sunday tabloid to fill the gap left by The News of the World.

A statement released by James Murdoch this morning confirms Tom Mockridge replaces Rebekah Brooks as CEO of News International.

Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News Internatonal, has resigned.

The Independent’s i has total readership of 368,000, according to the first early estimates released by the National Readership Survey (NRS).

A trading statement this morning from Associated Newspapers reports that trading during April and the first three weeks of May had seen advertising revenues 5% down on last year.

Raymond Snoddy: “Rupert Murdoch could say “to hell with it” – though those would not be the actual words used. He could close down Sky News and save the company an immediate £20 million a year. Worse still the entire future of News International could be called into question…”

Analysis of the NRS shows that there are 1.1 million average issue readers of the NotW (about15%) who do not read any other national newspaper – so there is a likelihood that many of these could be lost to the national press altogether.

The DCMS select committee has called Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks to give evidence to it next Tuesday.