The BBC News website still remains comfortably ahead of the Mail Online in terms of UK online visitors, according to research compiled for Press Gazette.

The UKOM/Nielsen data is based on a survey of 50,000 people accessing the internet from office and work computers across the UK and tends to deliver lower figures than ABC.

But it provides a much more comprehensive picture than ABC - which only audits a handful of news websites on a monthly basis.

Read more at the Press Gazette.