The move could result in the loss of around 100 jobs in the city and will bring an end to 154 years of newspaper printing in Liverpool.

Both the Daily Post and The Echo have long-fulfilled the roles of local champions for the city – as all good regional papers do – so the decision to shift production to Trinity’s new colour presses at Oldham is one that industry observers have already called ‘surprising’.

Justifying the move in Friday’s Daily Post, Trinity’s regional MD Sara Wilde said: "This has been a very difficult decision given our history of printing in Liverpool and the impact on people who we have worked closely with and who have given us such great commitment and service.

"However, I believe that this is the right decision given the unprecedented challenges we face.

Newspaper printing leaves Liverpool

Trinity will now make preparations to wind the plant’s production down over the next 15 months, with the Post switching over to Oldham within the next two months and the Echo following suit next year.

At the same time the firm has committed to spending some £7.5m on the new colour press facilities, which only opened last December, and insists that the move will now give both readers and advertisers enhanced quality and full-colour on each page.

It has also stated that a move to update the Liverpool presses, rather than switching production to Oldham, would have been ‘uneconomic.’

Trinity is expected to offer some of the printers facing redundancy new posts in Oldham and a consultancy period has now started in earnest.

How-Do understands that the size of the Old Hall Street site is approximately four acres. Trinity has not yet unveiled its plans for the location once production has been been moved.

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