Saturday, February 07, 2009

The continuing demise of Johnston Press

is reporting in the papers this morning.

Its Irish titles are being put up for sale in order to raise an estimated £70m and allow it to pay down some of its enormous debt.

According to the FT-

A formal prospectus will be issued in the next few days, according to those familiar with the deal. The titles are expected to be sold for a fraction of the original investment.


The group paid around 317m euros for the newspaper assets of Scottish Radio holdings,various local papers and the Leinster leader titles during a frenzied attack on the Irish market

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