Free newspaper Spits is to disappear from October, the Telegraaf Media Group has decided.

Instead TMG will focus on its Metro freesheet brand, which will be ‘fatter and more complete’, the company said. TMG plans to increase the print run of Metro, which it took over in 2012, to 510,000 copies a day.

The Netherlands use to have four free newspapers. DAG, set up by owner of the Volkskrant and AD, was launched in 2007 and folded in 2009. De Pers, an independent initiative, was first issued in 2006 but closed in 2012.

The Spits website, which claims 900,000 unique website visitors a month and 1.1 million mobile app users, will not be shut down.

TMG’s flagship Telegraaf newspaper will also shift from broadsheet to tabloid in October.