A bit of history missed (well, almost). Evidently, last Saturday night saw the last newspaper roll off the presses at News International's Wapping printworks. It was, rather poetically, a copy of the Sunday Times, given that the same paper was the first title published at Wapping back in 1986. PrintWeek magazine was on hand to record the event.
It reports: "A skeleton-staff of around 30 was on site for a print run of just 60,000 newspapers... It was an emotional evening for those involved, as many of the employees had been there for the full lifetime of the site, coming in as electricians or plumbers in 1986 with no knowledge of print whatsoever."
There's also longer PrintWeek feature on Wapping here. As I reported a month ago, News Int's papers are now being produced at three state-of-the-art print plants across Britain. Here's my report from the largest of them, in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.
