Plans have been revealed by Newsquest to cut 12 journalism jobs from its North West England titles.

The majority of journalist cuts will be from the Warrington Guardian.

This news comes a few weeks after Newsquest announced plans to cut 10 jobs from daily title the Bolton News.

In 2014, Newsquest reported an operating profit of £3.4M on its North West titles, on a total turnover of £29.3M.

 

The current proposed cuts will see the loss of three editorial assistants, one web editor, one social media editor, four photographers, two content editors and two commercial features writers.

Despite this, Newsquest have said that on production editor job will be created from the losses.

In 2014, Newsquest cut a total of 30 editorial job from its North West titles.