Redundancy requests at Herald almost 50

allmediascotland reports today the number of people seeking voluntary redundancy at Newsquest's Herald group of newspapers in Glasgow is now almost 50.
Staff at the The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times were made redundant and asked to reapply for a reduced number of posts. allmediascotland says it understands efforts are on-going to prevent the number of production staff falling to "perilously low levels".
It quotes an insider: "There is a strange feeling in the building. There's euphoria among those leaving that the stress of working in the place will soon be behind them and real sadness that a great team is being decimated. Everybody fears for the future of the paper."

Hark The Herald pay freeze

Allmediascotland reports today that staff at The Herald group in Scotland have been told their pay review is to be frozen from January to April. It is a move similar to that announced by The Scotsman group.
Meanwhile in Ireland, the NUJ says that staff at Independent Newspapers (Ireland) have been offered a "shares for pay cut" deal.
In Wales, HoldtheFrontPage reported yesterday that four reporters at two West Wales weeklies have agreed to sacrifice pay to prevent a fellow journalist being made redundant. Newsquest wanted one redundancy from the seven-strong reporting team which produces the Milford Mercury and Western Telegraph. But the threatened job loss appears to have been averted after four reporters agreed to an equal cut in hours on the condition they all remained in their posts.