DMGT division Northcliffe International has acquired Perex a.s., the publisher of Pravda, the leading national quality daily newspaper in Slovakia.
Northcliffe’s Slovakian business now employs more than 300 people and generates revenues of £12m.

The Lancashire Evening Post has now launched daily news broadcasts from its website, www.lep.co.uk.
LEP TV is hosted from the company’s Preston newsroom, with lunchtime updates.

Trinity Mirror has agreed to sell the recruitment consultancy division of the hotgroup for £11.2m.
It is being acquired by Ochre House Ltd, a company set up for the transaction that is backed by NBGI Private Equity and the division’s existing management team, led by Chris Herrmannsen.

A new report from the World Association of Newspapers identifies 28 components of the newspaper advertising sales process, and shows how improvements in any one of them can result in an increase in revenues.
Only three of the 28 components, or drivers, of advertising sales are outside of the newspaper’s control: the market in which the newspaper operates, the product that the advertiser chooses to advertise, and the market they choose to target. All the others can be influenced by the newspaper, and an improvement in any of them can lead to big rewards, according to the research.

Cambridge Evening News readers have come to the rescue of pensioners whose fundraising kitty was stolen in a burglary.
After the report about the loss of day trip money from a sheltered housing complex, money totalling more than £450 was sent to the paper.

A team from the Coventry Telegraph has reported on its “shocking experience” investigating cars parked near woods in their circulation area.
They found a number of men in their 30s and 40s parked by the woods and approached one car where a man was performing an indecent act. Other drivers challenged said they had stopped for lunch or a toilet break.