In more media news from the Sceptred Isle, after eight months of publishing as both a broadsheet and a tabloid, The Independent is going totally tabloid next week.

Over the past few months the Independent has phased out the broadsheet across the country, and today it said the response to the regional trials had been "overwhelming".

According to ABC audited circulation figures for March, sales of the newspaper have soared by more than 15% since the launch of the cut-down edition last September, to reach 258,000.

>Independent takes the tabloid plunge [The Guardian]