NEWSQUEST Media Group, owner of the Telegraph & Argus and one of the UK’s leading regional media companies, is continuing to deliver strong audience growth across its network of more than 160 local news sites.

Today’s ABC report for the period July to December 2016 shows average daily visitors to Newsquest local sites grew to 1.48 million, up 15.1 per cent compared to the same period in the previous year.

In January 2017, 27 million unique users visited the Newsquest online network (source: Adobe Analytics).

Toby Granville, editorial development director, Newsquest Media Group said: “It’s encouraging to see Newsquest’s local sites continuing to deliver strong overall audience growth, whilst we are also seeing strong growth in user engagement in both returning visitors and page impressions.

"Many of our sites now reach more than 70 per cent of the adult population of their towns and cities at least once a month, giving our advertisers a phenomenally powerful local audience.”