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Trinity Mirror is looking to sell 138 titles, including the Racing Post and regional newspapers in the Midlands, London and the South East. 14-Dec-2006 Barcud Derwen is to lease one of the Culverhouse Cross TV studios in Cardiff from ITV Wales, and aims to attract new programming to the site under the name of Omni Studio. 13-Dec-2006 NTL Telewest is to create 90 new jobs at its customer service call centre in Birmingham, as part of a £5.3m investment that will create 300 jobs across the country. 12-Dec-2006 John Menzies is considering plans to transfer its magazine packing departments from Aberdeen and Inverness to Dundee in March 2007, with the loss of up to 20 jobs. 06-Dec-2006 ZeroPlus UK, the Newcastle-based audio-visual company, has gone into liquidation through Tait Walker, with the loss of 16 jobs. 05-Dec-2006 BT Group is planning to invest £100m in the development of a broadband TV business under the name of BT Vision over the next year, including the acquisition of sports rights and equipment. 05-Dec-2006 ScreenFX is looking to raise £5m in a share placing to secure the future of its digital advertising business and expand its network of screens in 2007. 30-Nov-2006 NTL is to shed 125 jobs at its office in Coventry, in order to transfer the customer relations department to Stockton-on-Tees and the remaining jobs to Gateshead. 28-Nov-2006 Emap is to set up an additional 60,000 sq ft office at Greater London House in London NW1, and staff will relocate from its magazine publishing operations in Bowling Green Lane and Rosebery Avenue. 27-Nov-2006 Chapters Television, the London-based digital TV company with 40 staff, has gone into liquidation. 27-Nov-2006 Brainjuicer is to raise £1.4m in a share placing on Aim to fund the development of its market research business. 27-Nov-2006 National Grid is planning to demerge or sell its wireless infrastructure business, including mobile phone masts and broadcasting operations valued at more than £1.5bn. 20-Nov-2006 NTL Telewest has appointed GVA Grimley to rationalise its portfolio of more than 700 properties. 15-Nov-2006 At It Productions, the London-based TV production company with annual turnover of £12m, has put itself up for sale. 15-Nov-2006 Touch Local has secured a £7m investment from Benchmark Capital to expand the 26-strong workforce at its directory services business in Nelson to 100. 13-Nov-2006 Hasgrove is to raise £6.2m in a share placing on Aim to fund the expansion of its Manchester-based marketing and communications business, including the creation of an office network in continental Europe. 09-Nov-2006 News Letter is to relocate the offices of its Belfast-based newspaper to the Metro Building on Donegall Square in December. 06-Nov-2006 The Daily Express and Sunday Express newspapers are planning to shed up to 35 journalist jobs and 25 other staff, following a fall in advertising revenue. 30-Oct-2006 Interpublic, the media buying company, is to set up a 38,000 sq ft office at Cardinal Place in London's Victoria. 30-Oct-2006 Nexus Media Communications of Kent is planning to sell or close five of its 18 magazine titles, with the loss of up to 120 jobs from its 230-strong workforce. 27-Oct-2006 BSkyB is to set up a new administrative centre in Livingston, with the creation of up to 255 jobs, in order to consolidate its corporate finance and legal operations on one site. 25-Oct-2006 Pearson is planning to relocate its London-based business magazine operations to the same offices as the Financial Times newspaper. 25-Oct-2006 Channel 4 is planning to sell off Ostrich Media, its call-TV business with 40 staff. 25-Oct-2006 NTL is creating 200 new jobs at its customer care call centre in Swansea over the next few months. 16-Oct-2006 Stocks Taylor Benson is to relocate its Leicester-based marketing design business and up to 30 staff to a new £1m site at Grove Park in December. 12-Oct-2006 Brandsauce is to relocate the headquarters of its 3D modelling business from Manchester to Bangor, Gwynedd, by the end of the year, with the creation of 33 jobs. 11-Oct-2006 Future is considering plans to close or sell a number of its magazine titles, which could lead to the loss of 20 jobs in Bath and 30 in London. 10-Oct-2006 GOD TV is creating 35 IT, editing and administration jobs at its new TV research and development centre in Plymouth. 09-Oct-2006 BBC Worldwide is planning to establish a global network of six production offices in France, Germany, Australia, India, South America and eastern Europe. 09-Oct-2006 Different is planning to expand the 35-strong workforce at its Newcastle-based advertising agency by up to 20% over the next few years, and is in the process of relocating to a larger £1m office. 05-Oct-2006 Sabhal Mor Ostaig is to build a £7m media studies centre at its Gaelic college on Skye by the end of next year, with the creation of 70 jobs. 29-Sep-2006 Capita is to expand the workforce at its TV licensing call centre in Darwen, Lancashire, from 210 to about 340. 28-Sep-2006 Tiscali is planning to shed up to 40% of the 800 jobs in its UK broadband and HomeChoice video-on-demand business. 28-Sep-2006 Technicolor Creative Services is to close its subtitling facility in West Drayton at the end of September with the loss of up to 20 jobs, and some of the 40 jobs at its DVD division in Perivale will also be lost. 27-Sep-2006 Johnston Press is planning to integrate the online and print operations at up to 60 of its newsrooms across the country by mid-2007. 26-Sep-2006 SMG is looking to sell its Pearl & Dean cinema advertising and its Primesight outdoor advertising operations, in order to focus on TV, radio and the internet. 14-Sep-2006 Guardian Media Group is to relocate 500 Manchester-based staff from Deansgate to a new site in Hardman Street over the next few weeks. 12-Sep-2006 Imagineer has secured a £1m equity investment to fund the expansion of its film and video special effect technologies business. 11-Sep-2006 Daily Ireland, the Belfast-based newspaper, is to end publication with the loss of up to 15 jobs. 08-Sep-2006 NTL Telewest is to close its customer care centre at South Gyle in Edinburgh early next year, with the loss of up to 150 jobs, but 70 new jobs are being created at its site in Stockton. 07-Sep-2006 News International is considering plans to launch free afternoon newspapers in cities across the country, depending on the success of its new London freesheet. 04-Sep-2006 Cellcast is to raise £1.3m in a share placing to provide working capital to secure the future of its interactive TV business. 01-Sep-2006 Yell is to set up a new 3,000 sq ft Yellow Pages sales office with up to 35 staff at Hillview Road in Aberdeen. 01-Sep-2006 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) has awarded a contract to Connect Communications to outsource production of its magazine, with the transfer of 14 jobs from Edinburgh to Paisley. 24-Aug-2006 ITV has sold its 45% stake in TV3, the Irish commercial TV company, to private equity firm Doughty Hanson for £70m. 24-Aug-2006 NXO is planning to create an unspecified number of jobs at its Preston-based marketing services agency, and a new regional office has just opened in Coventry. 23-Aug-2006 Johnston Press is planning to close its newspaper printing plant in Hartlepool with the loss of up to 25 jobs, and 54 jobs could also be lost at sites in Northern Ireland. 18-Aug-2006 Capita is to set up a new 40,000 sq ft office at Donegall Square in Belfast to help service its BBC outsourcing contract. 14-Aug-2006 LBM is creating 250 new jobs at its customer contact call centres in Altrincham and Bredbury, having recently won a new contract from Sky. 11-Aug-2006 Aggregator has secured £9m from 3i, Intel Capital and Amadeus Capital Partners to fund the development of a series of internet TV services over the next few years. 20-Jul-2006 BSkyB is to invest £400m in the development of a broadband internet access business over the next three years. 19-Jul-2006 The 118 Group is to set up a new £1m directories call centre in Chelmsford over the next six weeks, with the creation of up to 400 jobs. 18-Jul-2006 Amaro is seeking a suitable site to set up a leaflet distribution centre in Glasgow next year, with the creation of 200 jobs. 17-Jul-2006 Pearson is to restructure the editorial operations of the Financial Times, with the loss of up to 50 jobs. 12-Jul-2006 BBC Scotland is to refurbish its Highland headquarters in Inverness by early next year, at a cost of £1.5m. 12-Jul-2006 Metro Broadcast is planning to double the size of its London-based TV production business over the next three years, including a new £2.5m facility in Soho and the relocation of its 15,000 sq ft Waterloo-based hire division to a larger site. 12-Jul-2006 Boxer, the design company, will be the first tenants at the revamped Fort Dunlop site in Birmingham, and will relocate from Coleshill to a 7,674 sq ft office in October. 11-Jul-2006 Condor Post Production has ceased trading with the loss of half of the 16 staff at its London-based broadcast and commercials facility, and a new company called Condor Digital will acquire some of the equipment. 06-Jul-2006 Turner Broadcasting of the US is to set up an animated comedy production unit with 12 staff in London by January 2007. 06-Jul-2006 NTL is to transfer up to 70 customer relations jobs from Coventry to sites in Manchester, Gateshead and Sheffield. 03-Jul-2006 Northcliffe Newspapers is planning to close its printing press in Hull with the loss of 47 jobs. 29-Jun-2006 Alphameric has raised £8.4m in a share placing to fund the development of a system to supply betting shops with live TV pictures of sporting events. 28-Jun-2006 UBC Media is to raise £3m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of new digital music download technology. 27-Jun-2006 Random House has acquired a majority stake in BBC Books, in order to expand its Ebury Publishing division. 23-Jun-2006 Delling Group has raised £4.7m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its marketing support services business in London, Sweden and Norway. 21-Jun-2006 Scottish Enterprise Tayside has unveiled plans to build a 28,000 sq ft office at Seabraes Yards in Dundee by next spring, in order to attract creative media companies employing up to 300 staff. 21-Jun-2006 VTR Group is to close two London offices of its TMR film archive and restoration business, which could lead to the loss of up to 31 jobs. 19-Jun-2006 Daily Mail & General Trust is said to be looking to sell its Study Group language training business for about £80m. 19-Jun-2006 NTL is creating 50 new jobs at its faults management call centre in Swansea. 16-Jun-2006 ITV is to invest £2.6m in the expansion of the Culverhouse Cross TV studios in Cardiff, and Greenfield Media and other media companies are expected to relocate to the 50-acre site. 15-Jun-2006 Pit Stop Productions is to relocate its animation business from Wakefield to a 3,000 sq ft hybrid unit at Capitol Park Barnsley this summer. 14-Jun-2006 Viacom Outdoor is to spend £72m transforming its advertising sites at London Underground stations, and a new team of 25 managers is being recruited. 13-Jun-2006 BSkyB is to shed 17 reporting and production jobs at its Sky News TV channel. 12-Jun-2006 Grey, the advertising agency, is to relocate its London headquarters from Great Portland Street to a 60,000 sq ft office in Marylebone Road. 12-Jun-2006 ITV is to close its Central South and Meridian West services and replace them with a new Thames Valley service, prompting speculation that up to 50 jobs could be lost. 09-Jun-2006 Five is to invest £50m in two new digital TV channels called Five US and Five Life, and they will be launched on Freeview in the autumn. 06-Jun-2006 Reuters is said to be considering plans to relocate about 400 staff from two sites in Tiverton to a single location, possibly in Exeter. 26-May-2006 Cambridge Newspapers is planning to shed up to 20 of the 430 jobs at its regional newspaper business. 23-May-2006 TSI Post Production is to close with the loss of 28 London-based jobs, leaving TSI to focus on its transmission business with 15 staff in Grape Street. 22-May-2006 Venue Solutions has raised £1.3m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of its video capture system and to increase its stake in YourDay Video Technologies. 17-May-2006 Yorkshire Forward has awarded £10m to Screen Yorkshire of Leeds to promote the development of Yorkshire's film and TV industry, which could lead to the creation of up to 1,000 jobs over the next four years. 16-May-2006 NTL has announced plans to shed 6,000 jobs from its 17,000-strong workforce, including the outsourcing of 1,500 staff in Liverpool, Swansea and Teesside to IBM. 10-May-2006 TSI has reorganised its London-based TV facilities business with the loss of 18 of the 86 jobs. 09-May-2006 BSkyB is to create 600 new jobs in Scotland, including 350 at a new satellite TV call centre in Uddingston and 250 technical jobs in Dunfermline, while a further 600 installation jobs are being created across the country. 04-May-2006 The BBC is to set up a new finance centre at Ty Oldfield in Cardiff with the creation of 140 jobs. 25-Apr-2006 Freshwater is looking to set up a nationwide public relations and marketing network, and has just acquired Sheffield-based Kath Harding PR to develop new business across Yorkshire. 21-Apr-2006 Experian is planning to create about 100 jobs at its Nottingham-based business information operation this year. 18-Apr-2006 Infoserve is to raise up to £9m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its online local search business, and its workforce will increase from 180 to 500 over the next 18 months. 18-Apr-2006 Midland News Association is to shed about 70 jobs in its regional newspaper business, including the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star and the Shropshire Star. 13-Apr-2006 RingTrue Solutions is to close its directory enquiries call centre in Dumfries with the loss of more than 50 jobs. 12-Apr-2006 Ingenious Media Active Capital has raised £150m to invest in a portfolio of unquoted media and entertainment companies. 06-Apr-2006 ScreenFX is to raise £3m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its digital advertising screens in shopping centres. 06-Apr-2006 The University of Wales in Aberystwyth has announced plans for the development of a £10m centre of excellence for visualisation by September 2007, in partnership with Silicon Graphics Inc and Sun Microsystems. 31-Mar-2006 Cinram UK is seeking permission to set up a new 180,000 sq ft building at Central Avenue in Ipswich, with the creation of 40 jobs, in order to consolidate its DVD distribution operation onto one site. 28-Mar-2006 Nunwood Consulting, the market research company, is to set up a 16,000 sq ft office at the Airport West business park near Leeds in October. 27-Mar-2006 NTL is said to be planning to shed more than 1,000 jobs from its 18,000-strong workforce, following its merger with Telewest. 27-Mar-2006 The BBC is planning to shed 1,920 jobs over the next 12 months, which is expected to include more compulsory redundancies. 27-Mar-2006 QVC, the TV shopping company, has started work on the £20m expansion of its warehouse and call centre facilities in Knowsley, which will lead to the creation of up to 700 jobs over the next seven years. 24-Mar-2006 WebEvents is forming a partnership with Business Excellence Global Media to set up an online marketing solutions call centre in Peterborough, with the creation of up to 100 new jobs over the next year. 23-Mar-2006 Motive Television has acquired a 49.9% stake in the independent TV producer Brown Eyed Boy, and has an option to acquire the balance for up to £1.6m. 03-Mar-2006 SMG has announced plans to merge Grampian and Scottish Television into a single division later this year, but there will be no further jobs losses and they will maintain separate premises. 03-Mar-2006 Emap is looking to sell its French consumer magazines business for an estimated £380m by the end of the year. 01-Mar-2006 Mortons is to close its contract newspaper printing plant in Newark with the loss of 18 jobs, in order to transfer production to Horncastle. 24-Feb-2006 The BBC is looking to invest at least £100m in UK film production over the next ten years, with an expected £15m expenditure in 2007. 23-Feb-2006 Chorion, the intellectual property rights company, is considering plans for a £133m management buy-out backed by private equity firm 3i. 23-Feb-2006 Ofcom has awarded a further 21 community radio licences in towns and cities across the country, taking the total to 84. 21-Feb-2006 The BBC has selected Capita Group as preferred supplier for a £100m outsourcing contract, which will involve the transfer of about 260 human resources jobs to a centre in Belfast. 20-Feb-2006 Mission Marketing Group is to raise up to £20m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund the acquisition of regional marketing agencies such as Bray Leino. 20-Feb-2006 News International has confirmed plans to shed 650 of the 1,000 production jobs currently employed at printing sites in Glasgow, Knowsley and Wapping, as part of a previously-announced plan to move to full colour by 2008. 17-Feb-2006 Newsquest is to shed up to 65 jobs at its newspaper publishing operations in Glasgow. 02-Feb-2006 Universal Music Group is considering plans to shed up to 90 of the 1,110 jobs in its UK-based record business. 01-Feb-2006 The Met Office is to stop producing weather forecasts at regional centres in Birmingham, Manchester, London, Cardiff and Belfast, and up to 60 staff will relocate to its main site in Exeter. 01-Feb-2006 Shine, the independent TV production company, is looking to set up an office in Manchester over the next six weeks. 30-Jan-2006 Royal Mail is launching a telephone directory enquiries service through its Post Office division, using call centres in Birmingham and Glasgow. 30-Jan-2006 The Reuters Foundation is to provide £1.7m of funding for the creation of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. 24-Jan-2006 Guardian Media Group is to conduct a strategic review that could lead to the £1bn sale of its Auto Trader magazines division and its Smooth FM radio station. 23-Jan-2006 ITV Granada is planning to relocate 800 staff to a new headquarters at the Bonded Warehouse in Manchester, and has submitted a planning application for the £18m redevelopment of the site. 18-Jan-2006 LexisNexis, the legal news company, is seeking a suitable site in central London for a new 70,000 sq ft office. 18-Jan-2006 The University of Teesside has announced plans to build a £7m Centre for Creative Technologies in Middlesbrough. 12-Jan-2006 Highbury House has put its magazines business up for sale, including about 30 gaming, technology, entertainment and special interest titles, in order to pay off debt. 06-Jan-2006 BBC Worldwide is to invest £4m in a joint venture with Mid-Day Multimedia to bid for new FM radio licences being issued in India. 04-Jan-2006 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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