The achievement has been a goal of Global Radio founder and executive president Ashley Tabor since his group acquired the station as part of buying GCap in 2008 and comes at a time when the result of the national roll-out of the Capital brand across the UK was fully recorded in a Rajar quarterly report.

Capital's return to number one comes in a set of first-quarter Rajar figures in which overall radio listening hit another new high. More than 47m ...