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Communication Papers: biggest unit lost money last year

Shop stewards demand action at UPM Communication Papers

Chief shop stewards at UPM businesses have written an open letter to the firm’s CEO demanding that negotiations to resolve long-running strike action should be resumed immediately at its Communication...

Filthy 48pp Lithoman III: could it scrub up nicely?

YM web and bindery kit up for sale

Printing and post-press kit from YM’s Pindar and York Mailing sites is being offered for sale by private treaty.

The London edition has an average print run of 310,000 magazines fortnightly. Image: Time Out Group

Time Out to stop printing London edition

Media and hospitality business Time Out is set to cease printing the London edition of its free magazine at the end of June.

TV Choice: supplies at 80% of normal levels for some regions

Magazines run late after YM web collapse

The fallout from the abrupt closure of YM Group’s three web offset sites continues, with some weekly titles running late and all eyes on the Daily Mail’s first in-house production of its Weekend...

Some of the programmes for sale in Reach Sport's webshop

BBC piece puts football programmes in focus

A BBC article questioning the future for football programmes has sparked a lively debate among experts.

Maren Krings signing copies of H is for Hemp

First published hybrid hemp paper book gets London debut

A hybrid hemp paper that is suitable for book publishing and HP Indigo printing is being shown in a published book for the first time at this week’s London Book Fair.

Weekend and You are key parts of the Mail's weekend package

DMG brings Weekend in-house

DMG Media has started printing Weekend in-house after the collapse of YM Group’s web division forced the media group to pull forward its plans to produce the title on its own presses.

Pindar Scarborough: will site remain shuttered?

No word yet from Pricoa on YM web debacle

YM Group backer Pricoa is yet to comment on the collapse of the group's three web offset sites, which were placed into administration yesterday.

YM Group: bosses slammed for "disgraceful behaviour"

Administrators take charge at YM web plants

YM Group’s plans to be a dominant player in UK web offset have collapsed into chaos, with FRP Advisory appointed as the administrator of the group's three web division businesses, and staff left...

YM Chantry: agency staff were sent home last night

Anxious YM workers demand clarity

Nervous workers at YM’s three up-for-sale web plants are awaiting clarity from the group’s bosses about the future for the sites, after Walstead apparently withdrew its interest in a possible rescue...