Restructured newspaper group to shed staff

NEWSPAPER publisher Trinity Mirror has revealed 35 jobs in Scotland are at risk after announcing that five regional offices are to close.

The Edinburgh office of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, and four local newspaper offices in Dumbarton, Paisley, Irvine and Airdrie are to go within the next two months. The jobs at risk involve commercial, advertising sales and administration roles.

Editorial staff are understood to have been offered the chance to work at home or relocate to Trinity Mirror’s main Scottish office at Central Quay in Glasgow.

The shake-up has emerged weeks after Trinity Mirror announced it would be bringing together its national and local newspaper titles in Scotland under the single new banner of “Media Scotland”. The Paisley Daily Express, which is part of the group’s stable, will now operate out of the Glasgow office.

In a staff memo, Mark Hollinshead, managing director of Media Scotland, said: “These changes form a crucial next step in the development of a new company as we work to create Scotland’s biggest publishing business.”

BRIAN FERGUSON