London — Stronger demand for advertising on news website MailOnline helped owner DMGT report a better-than-expected 19% rise in first-half profit on Thursday, lifting its shares to an eight-month high.

Underlying revenue grew 16% at MailOnline, one of the world’s leading English language newspaper websites, more than three times the rate recorded for the whole of the company’s previous financial year...

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