Printer wins £40m newspaper deals

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Deals worth £40m will mean Northern Ireland is to become one of Europe's biggest producers of daily newspapers.

Independent News and Media (NI) said it had reached long-term deals with two UK newspaper giants to print editions for both sides of the Irish border.

All sections of the Daily Telegraph will be printed at its plant in Newry, County Down, for the next 15 years.

It also won the contract to print the Daily Mirror on the Belfast Telegraph's presses for another seven years.

The contracts worth a total of £40m mean that INM in Northern Ireland will now be printing all Mirror titles and the Telegraph titles, together with the Sun, News of the World, the Daily Express and Sunday Express, the Daily Star and the London Independent.

It also prints the Irish Star, the Sunday World and the Sunday Tribune, as well as a series of magazines for the Independent in London.

INM's assistant managing director Kieran Matthews said: "These contracts are a major vote of confidence in our company and its workforces in Belfast and Newry from two of the UK's finest media companies."