Comments on: Regional daily to move offices after 55 years

By: Corporation corpse

Corporation corpse — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:21:49 +0000

And I hope that the ghosts of Keith Whetstone, John Cross and so many other fine reporters give TM sleepless nights. A classy building it was in the 70s, with a superb team. A great shame.

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By: Sly Dig

Sly Dig — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:43:24 +0000

I hope John Mutton’s mob at Coventry City Council get the building listed. It will stick two fingers up to TM, bunch of charlatans.

PS. Will have to come up with a new name now the peroxide blonde is leaving.

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By: Curious

Curious — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:40:48 +0000

Trinity-Mirror is selling the family silver everywhere it can. Any property assets which can be cashed in are up for grabs… which would make some sense if the economy wasn’t in the middle of a recession. Selling at the bottom of the market reflects their desperation.

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By: John Bull

John Bull — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:16:15 +0000

I began my journalistic career in that building in the 1980s, when the reporting team included Jeremy Vine, Rob Irvine, Rob Stokes and John Meehan. The paper sold more than 90,000 copies a day, had branch offices in Stratford, Rugby, Daventry, Nuneaton, Leamington, a sports ground at Lythalls Lane and was flourishing, largely due to the management. The MD Frank Bunting may have been an accountant by profession but he was a newspaper man through and through. Staff numbers were about 450 then.
This is another sad day in the decline of a once-great title. And the Canal Basin may be just five minutes walk, but it is further away from the city centre, parking and bus services. Will people who want to place adverts really bother now, when its present location was so easy to get to?
Only 110 people working there? Rugby, Daventry and Stratford offices long closed. Saving a fortune in wages and rents and leases, but still Trinity Mirror can’t make a profit, unlike before it stepped in.

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