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MneTV is to relocate its Glasgow-based TV production business to STV's offices at Pacific Quay in January. 31-Dec-2009 Infoserve is looking to recruit an additional 50 sales staff at its Darlington-based online search business early next year. 21-Dec-2009 TSL, the Maidenhead-based broadcast systems integration firm, is setting up an office at The Pie Factory at MediaCityUK in Salford. 15-Dec-2009 The British Film Institute is seeking a contractor to build a £9.5m master film store at its site in Gaydon, Warwickshire, by autumn 2011. 10-Dec-2009 ITV is to invest £5m in the refurbishment of its Kirkstall Road TV studio in Leeds over the next year. 07-Dec-2009 Lionsgate, the film distributor, is setting up a 6,000 sq ft headquarters at 60 Charlotte Street, London W1. 30-Nov-2009 QVC, the TV shopping channel, is in negotiations to set up a 100,000 sq ft purpose-built office at Chiswick Park in London W4. 23-Nov-2009 ITN is to restructure its commercial news business with the loss of about 15 jobs. 23-Nov-2009 Smiths News is to set up a £1m newspaper distribution warehouse in Newmarket in February, with the relocation of about 26 jobs from Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds. 19-Nov-2009 Cogenta Systems, the price comparison website, is looking to create scores of jobs at its newly-opened office in Newcastle over the next few years, having secured a £0.8m venture capital investment. 18-Nov-2009 IBS-STL UK is seeking a buyer for STL Distribution, in order to secure 150 jobs at the Carlisle-based book distribution business. 18-Nov-2009 ITV has placed its remaining Carlton Screen Advertising interests into voluntary liquidation through Grant Thornton. 16-Nov-2009 Reed Business Information is to close its Contract Journal construction publication, with the loss of 13 editorial jobs. 16-Nov-2009 The BBC is said to be considering plans to set up a new TV studio at the 220,000 sq ft former Freeman's cigar factory at Penarth Road in Cardiff. 16-Nov-2009 Guardian Media Group is planning to shed about 150 of the 1,700 jobs at its Guardian and Observer newspapers, affecting both the editorial and commercial departments. 12-Nov-2009 Primesight is to open a new office in Manchester over the next few weeks, with the transfer of ten staff from its recently-acquired Titan outdoor advertising business in Liverpool. 12-Nov-2009 WorkCast is looking to expand the workforce at its Durham-based video conferencing technology business from ten to 30 over the next year, having secured a £0.8m investment. 10-Nov-2009 Trinity Mirror is to shed up to 17 jobs at its newspaper editorial department on Merseyside. 09-Nov-2009 ATTIK is to relocate the headquarters of its graphic design agency and up to 12 staff from Leeds to London in January. 09-Nov-2009 Internet Search Marketing is looking to create 33 new jobs at its office in Berwick over the next three years. 09-Nov-2009 The BBC is to shed more than 100 senior management jobs by 2013, in order to cut costs by almost £20m. 02-Nov-2009 Daily Mail & General Trust is expected to close the London Lite evening newspaper, casting doubt on the future of up to 36 jobs. 28-Oct-2009 BBC Northern Ireland has confirmed plans to shed up to 30 news and production jobs in Belfast and Londonderry. 26-Oct-2009 Creative Scotland is being established as a new creative industries organisation in Edinburgh, but 33 of the 146 jobs at Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council will be lost. 26-Oct-2009 Infoserve is to create up to 60 new jobs at its online directories business in Darlington by next February. 26-Oct-2009 Business Internet Directory is creating up to 40 jobs at a new online services office in Leeds. 26-Oct-2009 Trinity Mirror is to shed up to 82 jobs in Birmingham, in order to reorganise the production of its local newspapers. 22-Oct-2009 The Department for Culture, Media & Sport is to provide £45m towards the cost of developing a new £166m national film centre on the South Bank in London by 2015. 19-Oct-2009 Joost of the Netherlands has placed the UK division of its online video service into liquidation, having failed to find a buyer. 15-Oct-2009 IMG Media is looking to sell its Tiger Aspect and Darlow Smithson TV production operations for a total £40m. 14-Oct-2009 Google is said to have revived its search for a new 150,000 sq ft office in London's West End. 12-Oct-2009 Ordnance Survey has announced plans for 180 voluntary redundancies at its Southampton-based mapping agency. 12-Oct-2009 The Phone Room is looking to recruit 30 staff for its new fundraising call centre in Oxford. 07-Oct-2009 Johnston Press is to shed about 100 jobs at its newspaper printing plant in Edinburgh, in order to transfer production of The Scotsman to Glasgow. 05-Oct-2009 The BBC is planning to shed 90 of the 240 jobs in its talent and rights negotiation department over the next three years. 01-Oct-2009 Trinity Mirror is to close three local newspapers in Wrexham, Whitchurch and mid-Cheshire, with the loss of 11 jobs. 23-Sep-2009 Guardian Media Group is planning to shed up to 100 editorial jobs from its newspaper publishing business. 21-Sep-2009 Zodiak Entertainment is setting up a 20,000 sq ft TV production office at Network House near the Westfield shopping complex in London W12. 21-Sep-2009 Chambers Harrap Publishers is to close its office in Edinburgh with the loss of up to 27 jobs. 17-Sep-2009 Press Association is to shed up to 50 journalists' jobs, as it will no longer supply news services to Teletext from next January. 16-Sep-2009 Reader's Digest is to relocate its magazine publishing business from Canary Wharf to a 30,000 sq ft office at 242 Marylebone Road, London NW1. 14-Sep-2009 Engine Group is considering plans for a flotation next year, in order to raise about £50m to fund the expansion of its marketing services business into Europe, China, India and the US. 31-Aug-2009 NBC Universal is seeking a suitable location in London's West End for a new 60,000 sq ft office. 31-Aug-2009 John Wiley & Sons is considering plans to shed up to 45 jobs at its Chichester-based publishing business by June 2010. 31-Aug-2009 Framestore is to close its London-based DI film processing department with the loss of 23 jobs, in order to focus on visual effects. 27-Aug-2009 Derwent London is to let a 12,200 sq ft office at 45 Whitfield Street in London's Fitzrovia to Target Media Group. 26-Aug-2009 News International is planning to close Thelondonpaper, the London-based evening freesheet, in order to focus on core titles. 24-Aug-2009 News Corp is to set up a 180,000 sq ft office at the Thomas More scheme in London, in order to relocate parts of its media business from the nearby Wapping headquarters. 24-Aug-2009 BSkyB is to close seven of its internet portals, with the loss of up to ten editorial and production jobs. 24-Aug-2009 Concrete Post Production is to go into liquidation with the loss of up to 22 jobs at its London-based film production facility. 19-Aug-2009 Virgin Media has confirmed plans to close its customer services call centre in Brierley Hill, with the loss of more than 250 jobs. 17-Aug-2009 The University of Birmingham has won planning permission to build a £5m 450-seat concert hall on its main campus. 17-Aug-2009 Electric Word has raised £2.7m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its information publishing business. 17-Aug-2009 Sequence Post Production is looking to relocate its London-based TV and film production operations to a larger site in Soho by early 2010. 13-Aug-2009 Ordnance Survey is seeking voluntary redundancies from the 1,300-strong workforce at its Southampton-based mapping information business. 12-Aug-2009 G-Forces is planning to double the 56-strong workforce at its web design business near Maidstone over the next two years. 04-Aug-2009 Regional Advertising Company, the Derby-based provider of advertising sales services to regional publishers, has gone into liquidation. 22-Jul-2009 Leeds Independent Studios is looking to replace its Studio 81 production centre in Leeds with a larger facility by 2012, and negotiations are taking place with an unnamed property developer. 16-Jul-2009 Daily Mail & General Trust is to close its Teletext news and information service next January, affecting up to 70 jobs in West London. 16-Jul-2009 ATG Broadcast is to relocate the BBC's London-based training and development unit from Marylebone High Street to White City by the end of August. 16-Jul-2009 Northcliffe Media has confirmed plans to shed about 30 jobs with the creation of two new centralised newspaper production hubs in Bristol and Swansea. 16-Jul-2009 Infoserve is looking to recruit up to 60 new sales staff for its Leeds-based online search business over the next few months. 15-Jul-2009 NetPlay TV has raised £13m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its interactive TV gambling business. 13-Jul-2009 Ogilvy & Mather is said to be in negotiations to take 200,000 sq ft of office space at the Kings Cross Central scheme in London, as its lease in Canary Wharf expires in 2016. 13-Jul-2009 Trinity Mirror is to close six local newspaper titles in the North East, with the loss of up to 66 jobs. 08-Jul-2009 Pearson is to shed 100 jobs at its Penguin book publishing operations in London. 07-Jul-2009 Tarsus Group has raised £2.8m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its publishing, exhibitions and conferences business. 07-Jul-2009 Virgin Media is to shed a further 20 jobs at its customer collections department in Trowbridge. 06-Jul-2009 Activ is planning to expand the workforce at its Leicester-based web design business from 17 to 50 by the end of the year, and will relocate to a larger site in Narborough Wood Park. 06-Jul-2009 Seven Marketing is planning to expand the workforce at its telemarketing call centre in Swansea from 45 to about 200, and it will relocate to Swansea Exchange. 06-Jul-2009 Trinity Mirror is planning to close nine local newspapers in the Midlands, as well as offices in Walsall and Burton, with the loss of about 94 jobs. 02-Jul-2009 Roomlinx of the US is planning to set up an office at one of the 11 Technium buildings in Wales, and up to 50 jobs could be created for the installation of interactive TV services in hotel rooms by 2012. 02-Jul-2009 Emap Informa is to shed 35 jobs from its magazine publishing division, although some could be redeployed in exhibitions and conferences. 01-Jul-2009 Local Radio Company is to close Mix 107 in High Wycombe in July, and nine staff will be redeployed at other radio stations. 29-Jun-2009 Wild Tracks has gone into liquidation with the loss of ten jobs at its London-based audio processing facility. 25-Jun-2009 Rushes is cutting eight of the 100 jobs at its London-based special effects business. 25-Jun-2009 Lincolnshire Echo is to relocate its headquarters to a 9,000 sq ft office at Witham Wharf in Lincoln in October. 23-Jun-2009 Birmingham City Council has unveiled plans to create a "digital district" covering Digbeth, Eastside and Birmingham Science Park, in order to attract inward investment from the creative sector. 18-Jun-2009 Institute of Physics is to stop publishing three magazine titles, with the loss of 25 jobs from its 270-strong workforce in Bristol. 18-Jun-2009 Northwest Vision & Media has secured a £2.7m European grant to relocate to Salford Quays in Manchester this autumn. 16-Jun-2009 Incisive Media is to close its Personal Computer World magazine, with the loss of an estimated 12 jobs. 15-Jun-2009 Trinity Mirror is to close local newspaper offices in East Kilbride, Coatbridge, Irvine, Rutherglen and Wishaw, with the loss of 11 jobs, as part of a strategy to create regional news hubs. 15-Jun-2009 Newsquest is considering plans to close its newspaper printing plant in Brighton with the loss of 53 jobs. 15-Jun-2009 Bauer Media is to close its Kerrang Radio newsroom in Birmingham, in order to relocate the work to Manchester. 11-Jun-2009 Royal Horticultural Society is said to be planning to shed 100 jobs from its 722-strong workforce nationwide, which is likely to affect its magazine publishing operation in Peterborough. 08-Jun-2009 Decision2day.com is to recruit 30 new sales staff at its Leeds-based online home improvements business, and a new office will open in Reading this month. 08-Jun-2009 Pinewood Shepperton has finalised plans for the £200m 100-acre expansion of its film studio in Buckinghamshire, which could create up to 1,600 jobs. 01-Jun-2009 Trinity Mirror is to close its Galloway News office in Castle Douglas later this year, and eight staff will relocate to Dumfries. 01-Jun-2009 Screen East has unveiled proposals to set up a special-effects studio in Norwich, specialising in performance capture technology for films, although other locations in Hertfordshire and Cambridge are also being considered. 27-May-2009 Channel 4 and BSkyB are considering plans to combine their advertising sales teams, in order to cut costs and help them compete with ITV. 25-May-2009 Conduit is to create a further 75 jobs at its outsourcing call centres in Cardiff and Swansea, in order to provide customer services for BSkyB. 25-May-2009 Virgin Media is considering plans to relocate up to 300 jobs from the Fujitsu technical helpline call centre in Newport to IBM in Swansea. 25-May-2009 The BBC has selected the Roath Basin scheme in Cardiff Bay as its preferred location for a new 180,000 sq ft production facility, and its Welsh headquarters could also relocate to the site from Llandaff. 21-May-2009 Amteus is to raise £2.3m in a share placing to secure the future of its Leeds-based educational networking and media business. 21-May-2009 Bauer Media is planning to shed up to 30 editorial and commercial jobs from the 700-strong workforce at its London-based magazine publishing business. 20-May-2009 BBC Magazines is planning to shed about 30 jobs, as part of a cost-cutting programme. 19-May-2009 IHS, the information services firm, is setting up a 33,900 sq ft office at 133 Houndsditch in the City of London. 18-May-2009 Virgin Media is planning to close the customer services department at The Waterfront building in Brierley Hill, with the loss of up to 320 jobs. 11-May-2009 The Number is to shed an unspecified number of the 350 jobs at its directory assistance call centre in Plymouth. 07-May-2009 CN Group is planning to close its newspaper printing plant in Barrow with the loss of 31 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Carlisle. 07-May-2009 BBC News is to shed up to 88 jobs by April 2010, as part of an ongoing rationalisation programme. 07-May-2009 JCDecaux is to shed up to 30 of the 650 jobs at its outdoor advertising business. 07-May-2009 Press Association is to close its regional office in Birmingham in July, and offices in Manchester and Cardiff could also close by 2011. 07-May-2009 Informa is considering plans to transfer the headquarters of its publishing and exhibitions business from London to Switzerland, in order to reduce its tax bill. 04-May-2009 Mecom is planning to reduce the debt in its pan-European newspaper business by raising £140m in a share issue and shedding 500 jobs. 04-May-2009 WPP is planning to shed a further 3,600 jobs from its global marketing services business this year. 04-May-2009 MEN Media is to shed 41 of the 74 jobs at its Channel M TV station in Manchester, in order to reduce the output of live programming. 29-Apr-2009 VOICE is planning to create 50 new jobs at its telemarketing call centre in Sheffield, and a second site will be set up over the next 12 months. 28-Apr-2009 The South West Scotland Screen Commission (SWSSC) has announced that an unnamed company is considering plans to set up a film production base in Dumfries & Galloway. 27-Apr-2009 Johnston Press is considering plans to relocate the Wakefield Express local newspaper away from Wakefield city centre, although a new location has not yet been found. 27-Apr-2009 Dawson News is considering plans to shed up to 2,800 jobs at its newspaper and magazine distribution operations across the country, following the loss of some key contracts. 23-Apr-2009 Harmsworth Printing is considering plans to close its newspaper printing plant in Bristol with the loss of up to 88 jobs. 20-Apr-2009 Western Isles Council is planning to set up a £2.5m media and creative industries centre at a former Harris Tweed mill in Stornoway by 2010, which could lead to the creation of 60 jobs. 09-Apr-2009 Ph Creative is planning to open two new internet marketing offices in London and Manchester by June, and expects its 15-strong workforce to double over the next six months. 08-Apr-2009 Entertainment Distribution Company (EDC) is to close its CD manufacturing plant in Blackburn with the loss of 260 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Germany. 02-Apr-2009 Virgin Media is planning to close its telesales department in Nottingham in October, with the loss of 148 jobs, and a further 126 jobs will go at a similar office in Brierley Hill. 30-Mar-2009 Eaga is planning to create a further 120 jobs at its Newcastle-based support services business by next year, in order to work on the nationwide change from analogue to digital TV. 26-Mar-2009 Avid Technology is to close its administration office in Soho, London, in July, and some of the 12 staff will relocate to Pinewood Studios. 26-Mar-2009 Daily Mail & General Trust is to shed a further 500 jobs at its regional newspaper operations this year, including the closure of printworks and the rationalisation of sub-editing. 24-Mar-2009 Aegis is to shed 780 jobs at its media buying and market research operations in 40 countries. 23-Mar-2009 Posterscope, the media company, is planning to set up a 25,600 sq ft office at 45 Mortimer Street, London W1. 23-Mar-2009 Millward Brown is to close the telephone unit at its market research call centre in Leamington Spa, casting doubt on the future of 137 jobs. 23-Mar-2009 Guardian Media Group is to shed a number of jobs at its local newspaper operations in Surrey and Berkshire, and the Reading Evening Post will become a twice-weekly publication. 12-Mar-2009 DCD Media is linking up with six Scottish companies to form a joint venture TV production subsidiary called Matchlight. 12-Mar-2009 MEN Media is to shed 150 of the 800 jobs at its Manchester-based local newspapers business, including the closure of offices in Accrington, Ashton, Macclesfield, Oldham, Rochdale, Rossendale, Salford and Wilmslow. 11-Mar-2009 Archant Norfolk is to shed 54 of the 179 jobs in its editorial department, in order to create a single news team for its regional newspapers in East Anglia. 10-Mar-2009 Aegis Group, the global media firm, is seeking a suitable 100,000 sq ft office in London's West End, in order to consolidate a number of subsidiaries. 09-Mar-2009 Lowe Worldwide, the advertising agency, has appointed Cushman & Wakefield to find a suitable 30,000 sq ft office in London's West End. 09-Mar-2009 Datamonitor is said to be considering plans to relocate its London market research office from Cardinal Tower to a 50,000 sq ft unit at Farringdon Road, to make way for the Crossrail project. 09-Mar-2009 Northcliffe Media is to restructure its local newspaper operations in Kent and Essex, with the closure of a number of free titles and the centralisation of production in Chelmsford. 09-Mar-2009 Five is to shed up to 87 of the 354 jobs at its London-based TV broadcasting business. 05-Mar-2009 The Mill is to shed 25 of the 400 jobs in its TV and film production business, including 15 in the UK. 05-Mar-2009 Virgin Media is said to be considering plans to sell its content division, including stakes in the Living and Dave TV channels, in order to raise up to £500m. 05-Mar-2009 Original Bristol FM has acquired the Star 107 FM radio station in Bristol for undisclosed terms, with the transfer of 13 staff. 05-Mar-2009 ITV is to shed 600 jobs, including up to 150 at its Kirkstall Road studios in Leeds, as part of a nationwide cost-cutting programme. 04-Mar-2009 TRO is looking to recruit 30 staff at its marketing agency in Norwich, due to a seasonal increase in event activity. 04-Mar-2009 Kent Messenger Group is planning to shed up to 159 of the 560 jobs at its media operations in Kent, and its printing, mailroom and distribution operations will be outsourced. 02-Mar-2009 National Magazine Company is to shed almost 100 jobs at its London-based magazine publishing business. 02-Mar-2009 Northcliffe Media is considering plans to shed up to 50 jobs in the East Midlands, in order to centralise the production offices of its local newspapers. 25-Feb-2009 Trinity Mirror is to shed 70 of its 276 editorial jobs in Scotland, in order to merge the newsrooms of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail. 24-Feb-2009 Avagio, the publisher of the Swansea Life magazine, has gone into liquidation with the loss of 15 jobs. 24-Feb-2009 ICE, the Merseyside-based provider of social marketing services, is to open a number of regional branches across the country this year, with the latest opening in Bristol. 17-Feb-2009 Teletext is to close its analogue TV information service with the loss of 16 jobs, in order to focus on digital services. 16-Feb-2009 Procam Television is to relocate its equipment hire and crewing business to a new facility in Battersea in April. 16-Feb-2009 Merricks Media has gone into liquidation with the loss of 22 jobs at its Bath-based magazine publishing business. 11-Feb-2009 Cosgrove Hall is creating more than ten production jobs in Manchester, having agreed a new animation deal with children's TV channel Cbeebies. 09-Feb-2009 Thomson Reuters is to set up an office at the Senate building in Exeter city centre, providing space for up to 70 staff. 02-Feb-2009 BSkyB is to create 1,000 jobs across the country, including 80 at a call centre in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, and 56 field engineers in Scotland. 29-Jan-2009 Five is considering plans to shed up to 90 of the 270 jobs in its TV broadcasting business, following a fall in advertising revenue. 28-Jan-2009 The Western Daily Press is to shed up to 45 editorial jobs in Bristol, in order to create a combined production desk with the Bristol Evening Post. 26-Jan-2009 McCann Erickson Communications House is to open a digital marketing office with up to 12 staff in Manchester city centre in March. 16-Jan-2009 Archant is to shed 20 editorial and photographic jobs at its regional newspaper operations in Ipswich. 14-Jan-2009 The University of Salford is to set up a 100,000 sq ft education centre at Peel Holdings' Media City development at Salford Quays in Manchester in 2011. 14-Jan-2009 Pearson is planning to shed up to 80 jobs at the Financial Times newspaper, including 20 editorial jobs. 13-Jan-2009 Town House is to shed up to 85 jobs at its TV production operations in Norwich and Maidstone, having lost a contract to produce a daytime show for Five. 12-Jan-2009 Exchange & Mart is to cease publication of its classified ads magazine with the loss of up to 80 jobs in Poole and Cheam, in order to focus on its online business. 09-Jan-2009 Trinity Mirror Southern is considering plans to close two local newspaper offices in Ealing and Rickmansworth in March, with the loss of 16 editorial jobs. 08-Jan-2009
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