archant, we've been around for about a years.d 50 newspaper titles which for daily titles, we cover east anglia, the southwest, herts the southwest, herts and cambridgeshire, and a few local titles in london. and if there is a london—centric view in the media world, how much damage do you say that does to what you are trying to do and indeed to the coverage of the uk as effectively as it could be done? i think to say it does damage is slightly strong. what's missing is that local voice. i mentioned the nhs as one of our lead stories, we talked about the nhs over the last 18 months. when we talk about the nhs we are talking our friends, families, our neighbours. we're talking about 12,000 people that will be impacted that we know. so when we talk about a story in a local newspaper a wonderful quote we had from a reader recently was actually the reason they like new local news is because we learned two or three things we didn't know about the community and how the national agenda is impacting us. but we also see two or three faces

i think that archant had been on a good _ think that archant had been on a good trajectory for the lasty for the last two or three years in terms of the level of innovation — three years in terms of the level of innovation that we've employed for that we've — innovation that we've employed for that we've been hit and we've been struggling — that we've been hit and we've been struggling with a very heavy pension deficit _ struggling with a very heavy pension deficit. but beyond that pension deficit _ deficit. but beyond that pension deficit i— deficit. but beyond that pension deficit i think the level of innovation that this business has been _ innovation that this business has been showing. the .net two years ago we started _ been showing. the .net two years ago we started working very closely with pure gold _ we started working very closely with pure gold and actually on one hand there's— pure gold and actually on one hand there's always a pressure of pension deficit— there's always a pressure of pension deficit suddenly would happen we started _ deficit suddenly would happen we starte