Trinity Mirror is to close seven local papers and nine satellite offices in north Wales and the north west. Three weekly titles - the paid-for Abergele Visitor and two frees, the Rhyl and Prestatyn Visitor and Your Vale - will close and be replaced by a free weekly, the Denbighshire Visitor. The Flintshire BuySell will also close.
In Lancashire, free weeklies the Midweek Advertiser and Huyton & Roby Star will close, while the paid-for weekly, the Formby Times, will be relaunched as a free. Two local editions of the freesheet Wirral News will also disappear.
The changes put 30 jobs at risk. As Media Guardian reported on Friday, Trinity is to close the plant that prints its Liverpool papers, placing 100 jobs in peril.
Trinity Mirror, Britain's largest regional newspaper publisher, warned this summer that advertising revenues were falling faster than at any time in the past two decades and promised to find £20m of new cost savings by next year. (Sources: Daily Telegraph/holdthefrontpage/The Guardian)
