United Kingdom-based Cumbrian Newspapers is looking to centralise its newspaper planning operations at a centre in Carlisle, a move that could cause two other operations posts to close, HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk reported Wednesday.

Cumbrian Newspapers owns two evening titles, the News and Star (located in Carlisle) and the North West Evening Mail (in Barrow), along with other weeklies.

The consolidation could cause the two Furness Newspaper planning posts in Barrow to shut down, according to HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk.

Terry Hall, managing director, sent the proposal in a letter to the staff. The move to consolidate is being done to increase technological capability in order to expand services to customers and decrease production costs, Terry Hall, managing director, stated in a letter to staff. “We have identified that the technology deployed within Cumbrian Newspapers Operation at Carlisle would best serve the future needs of the publications published by Furness Newspapers," Hall stated, according to HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk.

A central advertisement production operation based in Carlisle would also put nine people working in Dalston and Workington at risk of redundancy, Hall added.