Wolverhampton paper to cut 40 more jobs

The Wolverhampton Express and Star, Britain's biggest-selling regional newspaper, is cutting up to 40 jobs. Its owners, the Graham family, are offering voluntary redundancy deals to staff because of "difficult trading conditions". This follows 39 redundancies at the newspaper, which has a sale of 150,000 a day, last summer. Express & Star managing director Alan Harris said in a statement that there was an urgent need to reduce costs, and that prospects of an improvement "remained uncertain in the foreseeable future". (Via Press Gazette)