The Teignmouth Post is bucking the trend by becoming one of the few newspapers in the country to increase its circulation – by a whopping 28 per cent.With publications across the country, both national, regional and local, suffering a downturn, the rise in sales is all the more remarkable and thought to be one of the biggest hikes in the UK.In the last 12-months we have led with a series of exclusives – including the l Turn to page 2 return of Muse to play on the Den – but have not overlooked the grassroots community news that keeps readers informed of what is going on in the Teignmouth, Shaldon and Bishopsteignton area.Editor Ruth Davey said she was 'thrilled' and 'incredibly proud' of the whole team.'The staff are the embodiment of local news gathering: we live and work in the community, and report on the community, from serious news gathering and analysis from our staff reporter John Ware to the popular nostalgia pieces by Viv Wilson and David Potter.'And Teignbridge MP Richard Younger-Ross, who lives in Teignmouth and is also the Lib-Dem shadow minister for the media, added his congratulations.'Local newspapers are very important in a democracy, and it good to see the Post doing so well, when newspapers across the world are struggling, and even closing,' he said.'Bigger towns than Teignmouth do not have their own weekly and people miss them when they are gone. Newspapers such as the Post play a vital role in holding us politicians, at national and local level, to account.'Long may the upward trend continue.'