England

Former print finisher Michael Carroll, 60, has been convicted of murdering his 64-year-old wife Elisabeth following a re-trial at Cambridge Crown Court.

Distributor I-Sub Digital is to host three lots of open days to show off wide-format print and finishing kit from Agfa, Mimaki and Zund.

Colorscan Imaging Products has installed an EFI Jetrion 4900M digital label press as part of a 3m expansion.

Dantex has been appointed as European distributor for Screen's Truepress Jet L350UV label press, which had its official European launch at Labelexpo this week.

Spin Print Solutions has installed a five-colour Hans Gronhi B3 press and ordered an additional two-colour model as part of a 600,000 litho, digital and finishing kit spend.

A business boom in areas including South America has prompted Meech International to expand its premises in Witney, Oxfordshire.

Print Efficiently hopes to better last year's attendance of nearly 150 companies for the event billed as the "biggest show this side of Ipex", according to one of its main driving forces.

Ed Miliband will announce plans to freeze small business rates for two years, from April 2015 to April 2017, in his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference this afternoon.

The rapidly expanding and changing wide-format market has prompted Roland DG to launch an introduction to digital print course targeting printers who have bought their first machine.

On-demand book printer Lightning Source UK may branch into colour comics, journals and children's books after installing an Océ ColorStream 3700 from Canon.

Next week's digital printing conference, hosted by PODi, is being billed by its organiser as advanced and not for the faint-hearted.

Merseyside company LT Print has spent £250,000 on a digital suite to move all of its digital production in-house at its Wallasey headquarters.