Bad weather has delayed the delivery of a number of Scottish weekly titles printed in the North-East of England.

Copies of The Buteman and other Johnston Press-owned weeklies were due to be delivered yesterday but were held up for 24 hours after “horrific” weather on Wednesday evening.

Heavy snow in the North-East meant that the vehicles carrying the papers had their journey north from JP’s Sunderland print works halted by police south of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

The convoy was eventually allowed through, with a police escort, at around 4am yesterday and arrived at a distribution depot on the outskirts of Edinburgh two and a half hours later.

The Buteman is now expected to arrive on the Isle of Bute with the regular daily newspapers this morning.

Its website buteman.co.uk carried a piece yesterday apologising to readers for any inconvenience.

Production of a number of Scottish weeklies previously printed at Edinburgh was moved to Sunderland last year.

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All Subbed Out (08/01/2010 15:26:12)
I refer you back to comments on a previous day’s HTFP report regarding Northcliffe plans to move printing from Plymouth to Didcot, and shall say no more…