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Newsquest is considering plans to close its newspaper printing plant in Brighton with the loss of 53 jobs. 15-Jun-2009 Newsquest is to close its newspaper printing plant in York in January with the loss of 22 jobs, in order to transfer production to Bradford. 23-Dec-2008 Newsquest North West is considering plans to close its £17m local newspaper printing plant in Bolton, in order to transfer production to other sites. 10-Dec-2008 Newsquest is to reduce the number of journalists and publishing staff at its Herald & Times newspaper business in Glasgow from 250 to about 220. 04-Dec-2008 Newsquest North East is to shed up to 17 editorial jobs in its local newspapers business and close district offices in Barnard Castle, Redcar, Richmond, Stockton and Thirsk. 24-Nov-2008 Newsquest is planning to centralise the editorial production work for its Hampshire regional newspapers at its office in Southampton, with the loss of up to ten jobs. 12-Nov-2008 Newsquest is considering plans to close its newspaper printing press at Caxton Court in Colchester, with the loss of up to 80 jobs. 08-Sep-2008 Newsquest is to reduce the number of daily editions of the Northern Echo newspaper with the loss of 19 jobs, and eight editorial jobs will be lost in York. 19-Jun-2008 Newsquest is considering plans to shed up to 30 jobs at its newspaper publishing operations in Sussex and Wiltshire, in order to outsource prepress work to Express KCS in India. 29-Apr-2008 Newsquest is considering plans to close its newspaper printing plant in Newport, South Wales, with the loss of 21 jobs. 10-Jan-2008 Newsquest is to shed up to 65 jobs at its newspaper publishing operations in Glasgow. 02-Feb-2006 United Business Media has sold its Exchange & Mart and Auto Exchange publications to the Exchange Enterprises subsidiary of Newsquest for £50m. 19-Sep-2005 Newsquest Media has acquired a 17,500 sq ft office at Caxton Court in Watford to accommodate the Watford Observer. 10-Jun-2002 Newsquest has acquired Dimbleby Newspapers, the local newspaper publisher, for about £12m. 10-Apr-2001 Newsquest has proposed plans to bid for the whole of Regional Independent Media and then carve the regional newspaper business up between rivals Guardian Media and Johnston Press. 02-Nov-2000 Regional Independent Media, the newspaper group, is facing the prospect of a takeover approach from Gannett, as the US owner of Newsquest has asked the Department of Trade & Industry for permission to make a bid. 28-Jun-2000 Newsquest is to acquire News Communications & Media for £444m, in order to create a combined regional newspaper publishing group with 286 titles. 08-May-2000 Newsquest is acquiring a 9.9% stake in Freeserve Auctions, the internet-based auctions division of Freeserve, in return for £10m of advertising support in its local newspapers plus £2m cash. 25-Jan-2000 Newsquest has linked up with Chrysalis to launch a temporary radio station in Oxford called More 106.8FM, with a view to obtaining a new licence from the Radio Authority. 19-Jan-2000 Newsquest, the regional newspaper group, has agreed to a £904m takeover bid from Gannett of the US. 25-Jun-1999 Newsquest is planning a multi-million pound investment in a new full-colour, double-width press at its Lancashire print factory. 06-May-1999 Newsquest is in discussions to buy the newspaper assets of Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers, while plans by Johnston Press to acquire the whole of P&S have been referred to the Monopolies & Mergers Commission. 06-Feb-1999 Newsquest, the regional newspaper publisher, is planning to set up an auction service on the internet, allowing individuals to buy and sell small items. 24-Nov-1998 Newsquest, the regional newspaper company, is to start offering internet access to readers of its 184 titles by the end of the year. 19-Aug-1998 Mirror Group has broken off merger discussions with Newsquest International, and will instead try to extract a firm takeover proposal from Axel Springer, the German publisher. 27-May-1998 Newsquest Media has acquired Property Weekly, the publisher of property advertising newspapers, for £2.5m. 12-Mar-1998 United News & Media expects to complete the sale of United Provincial Newspapers next month, with Trinity International preparing a bid for the north of England titles and Southnews and Newsquest bidding for the free newspapers in London. 08-Jan-1998 Bristol United Press has acquired the Wessex regional newspapers business, which includes 11 West Country newspapers, from Newsquest for £35m. 11-Sep-1997 Newsquest Media Group is buying Westminster Press, the regional newspaper business, from Pearson for £305m. 06-Aug-1996 Midland Independent Newspapers has bought Newsquest (Midlands North), the publisher of free newspapers and magazines, for £12m. 30-Jul-1996 Johnston Press is acquiring four newspapers in the Doncaster area from Newsquest Media for £15m, and selling its Bury titles to Newsquest for £5.7m. 28-Mar-1996
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