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Easington District Council has received plans from a consortium led by the owner of Seaham Hall Hotel for the development of a £300m film studio in Dawdon, which could create up to 2,400 jobs. 31-Dec-2007 NetPlay TV has raised £1.1m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its casino and bingo operations. 31-Dec-2007 Reed Elsevier is planning to merge the back office operations of the three main divisions in its publishing business, including the consolidation of 140 data centres into less then 40. 17-Dec-2007 The BBC is to shed 100 jobs in Scotland next year, affecting journalists and technical staff at a number of offices. 14-Dec-2007 The BBC is to set up 60 big screens at outdoor sites across the country over the next five years, and many of the 36 new jobs will be based in Birmingham. 13-Dec-2007 Smiths News is looking to set up a network of 20 newspaper distribution hubs of about 80,000 sq ft, having appointed GL Hearn to find suitable sites in Manchester and South Wales. 12-Dec-2007 Aardman Animations is to relocate its Bristol-based marketing, project management and creative staff to a new 34,000 sq ft office being built at its Gas Ferry Road site in summer 2008. 12-Dec-2007 The UK Hydrographic Office is planning to shed up to 300 jobs at its maritime charts operation in Taunton over the next five years. 07-Dec-2007 Customer Street, the internet services firm, is to create up to 80 jobs at a new office due to open at the Pennine Business Park in Huddersfield in January. 03-Dec-2007 HIT Entertainment is looking to sell Guinness World Records for about £60m, in order to focus on children's characters. 03-Dec-2007 BBC South West is to relocate its Plymouth-based staff from Seymour Road to a new 22,000 sq ft office at Sutton Harbour in 2010. 30-Nov-2007 WPP is in negotiations to acquire a 100,000 sq ft office at the Qube development in London W1 for one of its advertising subsidiaries. 28-Nov-2007 Metro International, the free newspaper publisher, is to relocate its London headquarters and 70 staff from Mayfair to a 7,000 sq ft office at 85 Fleet Street in December. 26-Nov-2007 AVC Media Enterprises is to invest £3m extending its Aberdeen office by 33,600 sq ft, and has also announced the acquisition of Aberdeen-based public relations firm PR Partnership for undisclosed terms. 22-Nov-2007 Pinewood Shepperton has unveiled plans for a 105-acre extension at the Pinewood TV and film studios in West London. 16-Nov-2007 Motive Television is to raise £0.6m in a share placing to provide additional working capital and funds to invest in joint ventures. 13-Nov-2007 United Business Media is looking to spend up to £500m on acquisitions over the next two years, and is likely to focus on conferences, databases and press releases. 13-Nov-2007 Bloomsbury is expected to shed up to 12 jobs in its book marketing and children's editorial departments. 12-Nov-2007 Trinity Mirror is to merge its newspaper titles in Wales into a new multimedia newsroom in Cardiff, with the loss of up to 17 jobs. 07-Nov-2007 The BBC is considering plans to relocate production of its EastEnders programme from Borehamwood to a 200,000 sq ft facility at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. 07-Nov-2007 Integrity FSP, the Fareham-based company planning to supply Home Information Packs, has gone into voluntary liquidation through Smith & Williamson, with the loss of 35 jobs. 05-Nov-2007 Terra Firma is to conduct a strategic review of its EMI music business, which could lead to the loss of hundreds of jobs and the sale of its CD distribution unit. 30-Oct-2007 The BBC is planning to shed a third of the 180 jobs at its Natural History Unit in Bristol, as part of previously-announced plans for 2,500 job cuts in news and factual programmes. 25-Oct-2007 Mission Marketing Group has raised £5m in a share placing to fund organic growth and acquisitions for its marketing communications and advertising business. 24-Oct-2007 S4C is to relocate its Caernarfon-based broadcasting business and six staff to the Victoria Docks area in mid-2008. 23-Oct-2007 Tindle Radio is looking to sell its 13 local radio stations, including operations in East Anglia and southern England. 22-Oct-2007 Interpreting Translation Line of Gateshead is planning to double its staff of 150 interpreters over the next five years, having just opened new offices in Glasgow and Manchester. 16-Oct-2007 Boomerang, the Cardiff-based independent TV production company, is planning to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim later this month. 15-Oct-2007 Ant Marketing has won permission to build a new 20,000 sq ft telemarketing call centre at Sheaf Quay in Sheffield next year, with the creation of up to 400 jobs. 12-Oct-2007 AOL UK is considering plans to shed up to 22 of the 39 editorial jobs at its UK-based newsroom operations, in order to transfer the work to India. 08-Oct-2007 Green Bay Media has secured a £0.5m investment from Finance Wales to fund the expansion of its Cardiff-based TV production business. 02-Oct-2007 ITV is planning to close nine of its 17 local news broadcasting centres across the country, in order to reduce its £120m annual budget for regional services. 13-Sep-2007 IBM is said to be cutting up to 64 jobs at the Virgin Media call centre in Swansea. 13-Sep-2007 Urban Splash is to let a 50,000 sq ft office at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham to the Trinity Mirror newspaper group, while Capita will take the 50,000 sq ft fourth floor. 10-Sep-2007 Universal Music is to close its Sanctuary recorded music division in the UK, in order to focus on merchandising and catalogues. 06-Sep-2007 News International is said to have shortlisted two potential sites in Waterloo and Canary Wharf for the relocation of its newspaper operations from Wapping by 2010. 03-Sep-2007 The BBC is looking to sell its BBC Resources division, which includes outside broadcast facilities, post-production suites and 1,100 staff. 16-Aug-2007 DoubleClick, the digital advertising company, is to relocate its London headquarters to a 16,000 sq ft office at 180 Great Portland Street. 13-Aug-2007 Solent TV, the Isle of Wight-based community TV station with ten staff, has gone into liquidation. 23-Jul-2007 MTV is to relocate a TV studio from London's Leicester Square to its main site at Camden Lock. 19-Jul-2007 Freshwater is to raise £4m in a flotation to fund the expansion of its public relations and marketing business, which includes 87 staff in Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Sheffield and Southampton. 17-Jul-2007 I-design is to raise £3.5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its cash machine advertising business. 16-Jul-2007 Auto Trader, the car sales magazine, is to close its private sales department at Lower Earley in Reading in September, with the loss of more than 100 jobs. 10-Jul-2007 Google is seeking a suitable site for a new 250,000 sq ft headquarters in central London. 09-Jul-2007 WCRS, the advertising agency, is to set up a 60,000 sq ft office at 60 Great Portland Street in London. 09-Jul-2007 Medialab, the Brighton-based newspaper publisher, has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 20 jobs. 05-Jul-2007 The BBC is considering plans to sell off its Maida Vale recording studio in London, which would involve moving the BBC Symphony Orchestra to a new location. 02-Jul-2007 BBC Worldwide is planning to invest up to £400m in acquisitions and new ventures over the next five years, in order to expand operations such as magazines, online services and BBC-branded channels. 02-Jul-2007 Tolent Construction has acquired a 25% stake in the Coolmore Estate consortium that is in discussions with Easington District Council about plans to build a £300m film studio in Seaham. 25-Jun-2007 Farm Group is to relocate its Uncle TV production business and about 20 staff from London's Shepherd's Bush to its Metro division in Soho over the next three months. 25-Jun-2007 BSkyB is to invest an unspecified amount in the development of a new environmentally-friendly data centre and studio at its site in Isleworth. 14-Jun-2007 TH-NK is planning to expand the workforce at its Tyneside-based digital media business from 57 to 90 over the next three years, and a new office will open in London with 12 staff by the end of this year. 13-Jun-2007 Wilmington, the publishing and training group, is looking to sell off its design, construction, power, catering and automotive operations, in order to focus on the legal, healthcare and media sectors. 07-Jun-2007 News International is planning to shed about 90 journalist jobs, in order to reduce its newspaper editorial budget by £10m a year. 07-Jun-2007 Blinkx is planning to expand the workforce at its online video search business from 30 to 60 by the end of the year, following its flotation on Aim. 07-Jun-2007 Envy is investing £2.2m in the expansion of its TV production facilities in London, with the creation of ten new jobs. 07-Jun-2007 The BBC is considering plans to shed hundreds of jobs from its news operation, in order to cut the budget by 5% a year for five years. 05-Jun-2007 Synovate is to relocate its London-based market research business to a 50,000 sq ft office at Montague Close on the South Bank. 04-Jun-2007 MEN Media is to shed 40 jobs at the headquarters of the Manchester Evening News, as part of a strategy to focus more on digital publications. 01-Jun-2007 BT is to create up to 40 jobs at its BT Vision digital TV call centre in Truro over the next few months. 31-May-2007 Bertelsmann, the German media group, is seeking suitable sites in the Midlands for four distribution centres totalling 450,000 sq ft. 28-May-2007 Smoke & Mirrors is to invest £2.2m in the expansion of its visual effects facilities in London and New York. 28-May-2007 ScreenFX is in discussions to sell its shopping centre advertising business to a major advertising company by the summer, in order to focus on its other screen-based operations. 17-May-2007 The BBC has closed its BBC Jam online education service with the loss of up to 200 jobs in Glasgow, London, Cardiff and Belfast. 16-May-2007 The Northern Ireland Assembly has announced a funding package of £12m to attract major film production projects to the province. 16-May-2007 BSkyB is looking to relocate the Brentford headquarters of its broadcasting business to a new 150,000 sq ft site in west London by 2010, having appointed CB Richard Ellis to advise. 16-May-2007 Iostar, the new media company, is to go into liquidation through David Rubin & Partners. 15-May-2007 The Northern Ireland Assembly is to create up to 180 new jobs in Belfast following the restoration of devolution, with current vacancies for clerks and parliamentary reporters. 11-May-2007 Virgin Media is to create 250 jobs at its customer services call centre at Stockton on Teesside by August, reversing a recent decision to shed 149 jobs. 11-May-2007 VideoJug has raised £10m to fund the expansion of its online videos business, which employs 150 staff in London, Spain and the US. 08-May-2007 Yell, the business directories company, is to relocate its headquarters from two offices in Reading town centre to a 150,000 sq ft site at Green Park over the next few years. 08-May-2007 The Telegraph newspaper is planning to relocate its printing operations from West Ferry in London and Trafford Park in Manchester to new plants being built by News International in a few years time. 01-May-2007 Cagney is to raise £1.9m in a share placing, in order to reduce debt and fund the expansion of its London-based marketing services business. 30-Apr-2007 Autonomy is to demerge and float its Blinkx internet video search business, which could be valued at up to £100m. 26-Apr-2007 Vale of Glamorgan Council is to consider plans from ITV Wales for the development of a £140m media business park and 200 homes at Culverhouse Cross in Cardiff. 25-Apr-2007 Independent News & Media is creating 60 jobs at a new £20m press in Newry that will print more than 30 newspaper titles. 23-Apr-2007 Infoserve has announced plans to create an additional 250 jobs at its telesales call centre in Darlington, having won new contracts from Yahoo and the Football League. 20-Apr-2007 Cision is considering plans to close its media communications office in Peterborough with the loss of up to 130 jobs. 20-Apr-2007 Capita is to expand the 300-strong workforce at its television licensing call centre in Darwen with an additional 45 staff. 18-Apr-2007 Johnston Press is planning to close the pre-press department at its regional newspaper printing business in Chesterfield with the loss of up to 35 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Sheffield. 18-Apr-2007 SMG is planning to sell or float Virgin Radio, which is valued at £105m, in order to focus on its Scottish ITV franchises. 16-Apr-2007 Haymarket Publishing is looking to consolidate its offices into a single site in London, having appointed Colliers CRE to find a suitable building of up to 100,000 sq ft in Hammersmith. 16-Apr-2007 ITN is to shed 64 operational and support jobs by the end of the year, following a £15m investment in technology for its newsroom. 09-Apr-2007 The Oldham Evening Chronicle is to close its newspaper press in June with the loss of eight jobs, in order to transfer production to Trinity Mirror's site nearby. 06-Apr-2007 Johnston Press is to invest £10m in the expansion of its newspaper printing facilities in Craigavon over the next 18 months. 05-Apr-2007 WPP is to close its United London advertising agency with the transfer of some of the 25 staff to its Grey agency. 04-Apr-2007 Experian is to shed up to 100 jobs at offices in Nottingham, London, Bristol and Luton, in order to merge its marketing businesses into a single division called Experian Integrated Marketing. 30-Mar-2007 Gaelic Media Service has secured a £3.1m Scottish Executive grant to help secure the future of the Gaelic language through a new digital TV channel. 26-Mar-2007 Pepper Post Production is to increase the workforce in its London-based film and TV production business from 47 to 70 and take over the running of Future Film's audio facility in Soho. 22-Mar-2007 Avanti Screenmedia is to demerge its satellite division into a new company called Avanti Communications, in order to focus on the provision of advertising screens for pubs and shopping centres. 19-Mar-2007 The BBC is to conduct a strategic review of BBC Resources, the owner of broadcast trucks, studios and costumes, which could lead to a £150m sale of the business. 12-Mar-2007 Virgin Media is to shed up to 149 jobs at its service and install support departments in Stockton, in order to transfer the work to Dudley, Manchester and Birmingham. 12-Mar-2007 Newsfax is to relocate its newspaper printing business from Bow Industrial Park to a 44,000 sq ft site at Beam Reach in the Thames Gateway by June. 12-Mar-2007 Moviestorm has raised £1m to fund the commercial development of movie-making software. 12-Mar-2007 Pricebusters TV, the Nottingham-based TV shopping channel, has ceased trading. 09-Mar-2007 ITV Productions is planning to shed up to 30 jobs at its documentaries department in Leeds. 05-Mar-2007 QVC, the TV shopping company, is looking to relocate its Battersea headquarters and 500 staff by 2012, having appointed Drivers Jonas to find a 230,000 sq ft site within the Greater London area. 26-Feb-2007 Emap is said to be planning to shed 150 jobs from its magazine operations, following a fall in advertising revenue. 12-Feb-2007 Satvision, the Stockport-based supplier of plasma screens to pubs, has gone into liquidation through Simmonds & Co. 08-Feb-2007 Thomson Scientific is to close an office in Glasgow with the loss of about 60 jobs, in order to transfer work to South East Asia, and a further 140 jobs will be lost in Manchester and London. 07-Feb-2007 Rock FM is planning to shed up to 12 of the 40 jobs at its Preston-based radio station. 05-Feb-2007 Chrysalis is said to be considering plans to sell off its radio operations, including Heart FM and Galaxy, in order to focus on music publishing. 05-Feb-2007 First Sellers Pack is planning to create up to 100 new jobs in Hampshire by the summer, as part of a strategy to become a leading supplier of the new Home Information Packs. 01-Feb-2007 Emap is looking to shed about 50 jobs from its local radio stations, including 20 in Scotland and ten in Northern Ireland. 30-Jan-2007 NTL Telewest is to shed 21 jobs at its residential field sales operation in Stockton. 26-Jan-2007 Cabtivate, the Edinburgh-based company that installs advertising screens in taxis, has gone into provisional liquidation through Begbies Traynor. 24-Jan-2007 Trinity Mirror is planning to relocate the Birmingham Post & Mail from Colmore Circus to the Aston Science Park. 22-Jan-2007 Yell is to create a further 90 telesales jobs at its call centre in Glasgow over the next few months. 12-Jan-2007 Yell is to set up a new directory inquiries call centre in Newport, Gwent, by April, with the creation of 250 jobs over the next four years. 10-Jan-2007 ITV is to relocate 120 staff to a new transmissions facility in Chiswick over the next 18 months, and the site will be run by Technicolor Network Services. 08-Jan-2007 ITV is to invest about £20m in the launch of a broadband TV site at the end of March, enabling viewers to watch the last 30 days of programming online. 03-Jan-2007 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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