Alan Formby-Jackson

All 300 editorial staff working on Trinity Mirror newspapers in the Midlands have been made redundant and asked apply for new roles as part of radical plans to overhaul the company’s publishing operation in the region.

Trinity Mirror management briefed staff across the group yesterday afternoon that all existing editorial positions at its regional dailies - the Birmingham Post, the Birmingham Mail and the Coventry Telegraph - along with its Sunday Mercury title and up to 40 weekly newspapers across the Midlands region would become obsolete.

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SND Region 15 member, William Crossley, kindly sent me some pages from the Oxford Mail in England. With a circulation of 25,100 this, from a design point of view, is typical of regional newspapers (my paper being no different) in the UK.

William, the deputy chief sub at the Mail, has done pretty well here though - he’s even written the story!

Nice use of a simple, effective graphic.

I’m glad a headline wasn’t slapped on top of this picture.

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