Newsquest Oxford has become the first newspaper printer in the country to install Creo thermal platesetters.
More than 400 plates per hour can be produced on the news equipment and Newsquest Oxford printing services manager Geoff Harvey said: "Production times will be reduced because thermal plates will give us quicker makeready times."

The World Association of Newspapers has been travelling the globe to find out why some titles continue to grow circulation while others are losing sales.
The results of the research will be presented at the World Newspaper Congress, where newspaper "circulation winners" will share their strategies for succeeding in competitive markets, at the expense of their competitors.

The Newspaper Society has hosted the European Newspaper Publishers Association's (ENPA) meeting for the directors of 16 European newspaper national associations.
The meeting was joined by Dr Phyllis Starkey MP, PPS to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

The parent company of the Oldham Evening Chronicle, Hirst, Kidd and Rennie Ltd, is turning its staff into potential life savers.
A total of 32 workers, all volunteers, are being trained in resuscitation skills. They include promotions staff, who look after readers on coach trips, as well as workers from across the company.

Highbury College in Portsmouth has come in for praise for its broadcast journalism course.
The Broadcast Journalism Training Council monitored a live news exercise at the centre, and afterwards said the course was "excellent".

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