The decision to move the South Wales Argus to overnight printing will give local readers a poorer product, according to the paper’s local MP.Paul Flynn, the Labour member for Newport, criticised the move in a letter to the paper’s editor Gerry Keighley yesterday.He said: “What you propose is to rob Newport of a substantial numbers of jobs and skills and give your readers a poorer product. It’s not only the present staff who will be losing out, but future employees, and the city will be deprived of the newsprinting facilities that have been a feature of our industrial life for centuries. The change is being made for one reason only – to increase the profits of Gannett and Newsquest.”The paper will go to overnight printing as a result of the closure of its Newport printing plant, making 21 printers redundant.
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