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Job losses at Trinity Mirror’s south Wales base, which publishes the South Wales Echo and Western Mail from Cardiff, will not include compulsory redundancies among editorial staff, the company has announced.
Ten editorial jobs are due to go at the centre, where a consultation process is still under way.


National Union of Journalists representaives from the Bristol Evening Post and Western Daily Press were today meeting with management to discuss proposed job losses ahead of a union meeting tomorrow.
Union members among editorial staff have already voted in favour of strike action and a decision on whather to press ahead with the threat could be made tomorrow.


Archant Life has added independent magazine title Derbyshire Life to its fast-growing portfolio.
The 12,000-circulation title was bought from Derbyshire Countryside Ltd and the Wood family, who have published it since its launch in 1931, for an undisclosed sum. Derbyshire Life and its ten staff will continue at present to produce the magazine from its offices in Derby.


Former regional press journalist Simon Clyne has died, aged 102.
He worked as a reporter and sub-editor in Hull, Derby, Liverpool and Manchester before joining the Daily Mirror, where he was picture editor until he retired in 1968.