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Editorial jobs cut at the Argus

Six editorial jobs are to be cut at the South Wales Argus as part of cost-saving measures by parent company Newsquest.

Editor Gerry Keighley is understood to have spoken to staff one by one and sought voluntary redundancies.

Four subbing and design staff are to go, along with one reporter and one sports writer, with affected staff expected to leave within the next month.

Staff at the Argus’s Newport office also produce the weekly Campaign Series, Free Press Series and Weekly Argus, and as part of the changes subs currently either working on the daily or weekly titles will be merged to create one subbing pool.

Gavin Steacy, Newsquest regional managing director for Wales and Gloucestershire, was unavailable for comment.

The editor was also unavailable.

The move follows redundancies at other Newsquest centres around the country, including York where nine editorial jobs were lost.

Up to 12 editorial jobs were cut in Bolton and Bury, while the Lancashire Evening Telegraph closed its district offices in Burnley, Accrington and Darwen.

The group’s Scottish titles, The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times have also been hit by redundancies, and changes have been made in High Wycombe, Watford and St Albans.