Watford-based printer The Henna Press went into liquidation after being hit by a £167,000 bad debt when its biggest client, FT Solutions, went into administration in February... The assets of Black Dog Publishing and sister company Artifice Books, which went into liquidation in February owing printers thousands of pounds, were bought by St James’s House Media Group... Sales and business development director Martyn Viquerat became the latest senior manager to depart Adare Secure Essential Communications, with chief operating officer Barry Crich set to follow... Go Inspire, formerly GI Solutions Group, began restructuring its Eclipse 4DM business and launched a 30-day consultation with just under 100 workers at the site, with 28 roles at risk... Trinity Mirror was served a ‘hold separate’ order by the Competition & Markets Authority, pending an investigation into risks to press plurality resulting from its acquisition of titles from Northern & Shell. Meanwhile, the company confirmed that its former chief operating officer Mark Hollinshead will oversee the integration of the acquired titles. It also rebranded as Reach... CS Labels revealed plans to relocate to a new manufacturing facility and bring in a raft of new Xeikon label presses as part of a £3m investment, described as a “logical progression”...Iconic British weekly music publication, The NME, which launched in 1952, has been axed as part of the brand’s digital-first strategy... Industry colleagues paid tribute to Joanne Hurst, the former European catalogue production manager at mail order clothing firm Lands’ End, who died last in February...  Former rivals Goss International and Manroland Web Systems announced they were to merge their press businesses into a jointly owned company...  BCQ Group bought Kidlington-based commercial printer Hunts, taking on all of its staff and creating a £16m group... A huge row erupted after the £490m UK passport contract was awarded to Franco-Dutch firm Gemalto, with incumbent supplier De La Rue vowing to appeal and Unite mobilising a campaign to reverse the decision. De La Rue chief executive Martin Sutherland questioned the viability of Gemalto’s pricing... St Ives sold its previously loss-making £106.3m-turnover wide-format printing businesses for £6m and the new owner, SelmerBridge, an acquisition vehicle set up by French investor Landry Kouakou, pledged to “revitalise” them... Print Trailblazer, a new type of apprenticeship scheme devised by employers, received government approval after more than three years of talks... Recycler Ereco was ordered to pay £60,000 for its mishandling of print toner, which led to an explosion that injured eight people, five critically, and irreparably damaged a nearby print company on the Hobbs Industrial Estate in Surrey in 2011... Henry Stone went into administration just four months after the collapse of its ill-fated venture into web offset at Stones Ashford. The Banbury-based sheetfed printer had a history dating back to 1826... Japanese post-press equipment manufacturer Duplo Corporation bought Duplo International, the parent of Duplo UK... Continental web and gravure printing group CirclePrinters bought Corelio Printing in Belgium from its media group owner Corelio, a year on from its purchase of Roto Smeets... Newsquest outlined plans to close the printing operations at the CN Group in Carlisle, with more than 30 jobs at risk... Konica Minolta Marketing Services restructured its senior management to integrate the teams from acquisitions Charterhouse PM, Indicia and Ergo and reflect a global outlook, rather than region-specific... Baroness Dean, a Labour peer and the first woman to lead a major trade union, died aged 74. Dean worked in print unions all her life, rising to SOGAT general secretary in 1985, overseeing one of the most tumultuous periods in its history, the Wapping dispute of 1986... Haymarket Media Group agreed to sell five of its titles – What Hi-Fi?, FourFourTwo, Practical Caravan, Practical Motorhome and Stuff – to Future Publishing in a deal thought to be worth up to £14m... Printers across the UK were battling blizzards and road closures as they strove to keep the presses turning, but the ‘Beast from the East’ forced at least one company to enact a temporary emergency shutdown... 113-year-old Lincoln-based printer Elpeeko was placed into creditors’ voluntary liquidation, citing a fall in sales which terminally impacted cashflow... Label and flexible packaging press manufacturer Mark Andy acquired direct imaging press and plates specialist Presstek from private equity owners, American Industrial Partners, as consolidation within the industry continued... Bournemouth Colour Press went into voluntary liquidation, citing a problematic takeover of failing connected company James Byrne Printing last year and £35,000 in bad debt incurred in January...  The fire brigade was called to GD Web Offset just before Easter after a drier on its M4000 48pp web heatset web offset press exploded... Positive ID Labels acquired Tiverton, Devon-based Limbus Labels. The deal was completed at the end of February and creates a group with sales of circa £2m...