The Daily Mail & General Trust's regional publishing division, Northcliffe Media, will centralise copy editing work for its newspapers in the east Midlands and northern England, and also transfer printing of its Leicester Mercury title, Media Guardian reported. The move will put jeopardise 116 jobs.

The site to which printing operations will be transferred has not been revealed yet. Harmsworth Press, a Northcliffe subsidiary, prints the Leicester Mercury and has begun consultation in regard to its plans.

As part of its consolidation plans, the Leicester Mercury, Derby Evening Telegraph and Nottingham Evening Post will be printed from its new production centre in Nottingham, according to Media Guardian. The Lincolnshire Echo, Grimbsby Telegraph, Scunthorpe Telegraph and Hull Daily Mail will be published together at a second centre that is still being built.

Jenny Lennox, the assistant northern organiser of the National Union of Journalists, told Media Guardian the NUJ is concerned that newspapers are being uprooted from their communities.