172-year-old local newspaper goes into administration
The 172-year-old daily newspaper the Oldham Evening Chronicle has gone into administration with most of its 49 staff made redundant.
Paul Flint and Jonathan Marston of KPMG have been appointed joint administrators of Hirst, Kidd and Rennie Ltd, the company which produces the Chronicle.
Established in 1854, the company employs 49 staff. It also has four companion monthly free titles – Oldham Extra, Saddleworth Extra, Tameside Extra and the Dale Times, and three quarterly A4 magazines: Oldham Business Edge, The Knowledge and Pri... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
