Regionals

Our Regionals division publishes an extensive portfolio of market leading brands across print and digital media in the UK. Life is local and local is what regional media is all about.

Our iconic print brands sit at the heart of their communities, forming part of the fabric of everyday life for thousands of people across the UK. Key titles include the Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Daily Post, Newcastle Journal, Evening Chronicle, Western Mail, Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Post, Coventry Telegraph and the Paisley Daily Express. In addition we publish five Metro titles across the UK in Newcastle, Birmingham, Liverpool, Cardiff and Scotland.

In the majority of our regions, our print portfolio reaches over two thirds of the adult population every week.

Local and regional newspapers are among the brands most trusted by consumers. They provide a sense of place and belonging: voicing local concerns; giving expression to local aspirations; and championing local causes. Readers can depend on their paper to provide them with relevant news about their area, news which has their interests at heart but is free of political influence or motivation. No other medium provides the same level of local news written by professionally trained journalists on a daily basis.

Our print titles are complemented by a fast growing digital portfolio which extends our reach across our local markets. These comprise:

• 60+ newspaper companion websites with unique editorial propositions which complement our key newspaper brands. Plus they provide postcode level personalisation and local maps with geo tagged content right down to street level.
• 100+ hyper-local sites which serve specific postcodes and communities with highly relevant, local editorial and user generated content. These sites are designed to be an indispensable guide to their communities and provide precision geographic targeting to local advertisers.
• vibrant classified sites in the key areas of recruitment, property and motors plus important local services such as births, marriages and deaths
• 11 mobile sites providing users with regularly-updated local news and tailored, personalised information

To further strengthen our digital position in recent years we have acquired a number of national digital businesses in the key revenue categories of recruitment and property. In recruitment we are creating the UK's largest network of specialist job sites, including leading brands such as GAAPweb, TotallyLegal, TotallyFinancial, PlanetRecruit, Secsinthecity and The Careerengineer. Additionally, we own a 50% stake in Fish4, which publishes one of the UK's leading national recruitment sites, Fish4Jobs. In property we publish Smartnewhomes, the UK's leading site for new homes.

Average monthly unique users across our 400-plus digital sites has grown to over 6.8 million.

Georgina Harvey is the Managing Director of our Regionals division.