The Daily Echo is the name of two daily tabloid newspapers in southern England owned by Newsquest.
It also has a specialist arm, which publishes both commercial and business to business (B2B) titles, such as Insurance Times, The Strad, and Boxing News.
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In 1996 Newsquest swapped its Yorkshire titles for Johnston Press’s Bury, Lancashire area titles and £9.25 million, sold some of its titles in the English Midlands to Midland Independent Newspapers and bought the Westminster Press local newspapers group for £12.3 million from Pearson, owner of Penguin Books and the Financial Times, resulting in Newsquest doubling in size.
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“Newsquest’s purchase of the Herald group was backed by assurances that they would maintain standards and not cut editorial budgets,” the NUJ quoted Cathy Peattie Scottish Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Falkirk East as saying.
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On 10 July 2007 the NUJ reported that the UK’s Competition Commission was investigating allegations made by SNP MP for Perth and North Perthshire Pete Wishart that Newsquest had given it misleading evidence while it was considering whether the Liberal Democrat supporting company should be permitted to take over titles from SMG.
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Newsquest is based in Weybridge, Surrey and employs a total of more than 5,500 people across the UK.
The paper is now owned by the Newsquest group, within which it forms part of Westmorland Gazette Newspapers, which includes the weekly freesheet South Lakes Citizen and other titles.