A regional daily has donated more than £1,700 to the April Jones Trust fund from the cover price of an edition which marked one year since the schoolgirl disappeared.

The North Wales Daily Post decided to give 10p from each copy of its West edition sold on 1 October to the fund because the date marked a year since April went missing.

The total amount raised by the paper has been announced as £1,746.30, which has been given to the fund for it to distribute to charities and local groups, along with more than £70,000 already raised from all over the world.

Five-year-old April disappeared on 1 October last year and Mark Bridger was jailed for life earlier this year for her abduction and murder.

The Daily Post told readers it was making the donation, “as a gesture of solidarity with our readers who so generously donated time, effort and money in the hunt to find April.”

Editor Alison Gow said at the time: “We’re widely regarded as the local daily paper in Machynlleth and we felt, as did the newspaper sales department, that a cover price donation on the anniversary itself was at least some gesture of support on a horrible day.

“I’m pleased we were able to do this; the whole newsroom was shocked by April’s murder and I doubt anyone here will ever forget covering that story.”

The week of the anniversary, the Trinity Mirror title also published a series of features looking at how the town of Machynlleth was moving on and how the fund would be used.