“People are working out if they can even afford to get their family Christmas presents this year,” says one of the 450 staff at risk of redundancy at Reach, owner of the Mirror, Express and scores of local newspapers, in brutally timed job cuts that will run into the new year.
The grim reality facing the workforce is testament to the increasingly parlous state of the UK’s largest commercial news publisher, whose titles also include the Daily Star, the Daily Record, the Manchester Evening News, the Liverpool Echo and the Live network of local news websites.
