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Nick Grimshaw’s added listeners helped Radio 1’s overall audience climb by 737,000 listeners. Photograph: Mark Allen/BBC/PA

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BBC Radio 1 claws back listeners as Nick Grimshaw recovers from breakfast low
Breakfast show adds 350,000 listeners in three months to end of June in mini-recovery from worst ratings in 12 years

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Investigative journalism is vital for democracy as state surveillance increases
Carly Nyst: In Germany, as in Britain, journalists should be free to report on and hold their countries’ ever-widening surveillance programmes to account

Today’s headlines

The Guardian
Smartphones are top for accessing the web, says Ofcom. P15
Stuart Heritage on explosive soap plots. G2 P2

Daily Telegraph
Radio 2’s golden oldie shows receive highest ratings ever. P2
The Great British Bake Off review. P9
Katie Hopkins interviewed by police over migrant comments. P9
Communications services spending up as more subscribe to pay-TV. P29

Financial Times
Fleet Street’s El Vino wine bar sold. P2
Smartphones preferred to laptops for going online, says Ofcom. P3
Walt Disney’s cable outlook sparks retreat for sector. P18
Spirited Sony aims to change the picture. P20

The Times
Cilla Black set for top 40 hit. P4
Digital radio listeners signal end of analogue. P16
Smartphones are top for accessing the web, says Ofcom. P35

The Independent
The Great British Bake Off review. P7
Stalked in Hyde Park, the journalist who dared write about corruption in Malaysia. P17
Virgin Media holds on to more customers. P51

i
Universal grosses world-record £3.5bn. P3
The Great British Bake Off review. P7
Virgin Media reports best-ever quarter for keeping customers. P40

Wall Street Journal Europe
IBM and Apple learn to co-operate. P15
Yahoo targets ad tech revival. P17
Time Warner gets boost from new video games. P18
Apple doesn’t need to repeat its past. P28

Daily Mail
Jan Moir on The Great British Bake Off. P3
Cilla Black ‘not discovered for five hours after fall’. P5
Katie Hopkins interviewed by police over migrant comments. P6
David Cameron was too soft on Google and Facebook for hosting jihadi propaganda, says ex-aide. P25
Mary Berry looking younger with each GBBO series, says Jan Moir. P44-45

Daily Express
Hickey: Noel Edmonds says BBC’s sacking of Jeremy Clarkson was badly managed. P22

The Sun
The Muppets’ Miss Piggy splits with Kermit. P3
Gordon the Gopher to return in comedy pilot on BBC website. P3
Sun gagged in high court from revealing sports star’s alleged affair. P1,4-5
Cilla Black ‘not discovered for five hours after fall’. P7
Bookies suspend bets on The Great British Bake Off contestant. P9
The Great British Bake Off review. P9
The Cilla Black story. P22-23
Smartphones preferred to laptops for going online, says Ofcom. P26
Steve Jones on being axed from The X Factor USA. P31
EastEnders coverage. P32
Piers Morgan: Channel 4 wanted me to fake my own death. P32-33

Daily Mirror
One million people tune out of Radio 5 Live. P6
Punk rocker first contestant to leave the Bake Off. P7
Piers Morgan says he was asked to fake death for reality TV show. P11
Interview with actor Tamzin Outhwaite. P15

Daily Star
Kelly Osbourne fights for TV career after Latinos slur. P3
Gordon Ramsay sets US TV studio up in flames. P3
Gordon The Gopher to make comeback on online show. P3
Martin Kemp to appear on Birds of a Feather. P26
Katie Hopkins banned from filming new show outside the TV studio due to attack fears. P26
Reece Shearsmith to guest star on Doctor Who. P26

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