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Contract printer Newbury Weekly News Group (NWNG) has bucked the trend of moving away from independent printing by investing in the newly launched Goss Uniliner press.

The double-width machine consists of two four-high towers, two reelstands and a 2:3:3 jaw folder and will double the printing capacity at the company's Newbury plant.

Adrian Martin, managing director at NWNG, said "We're very confident in the future of local newspapers and believe that people will still be buying and reading them well into the future."

Goss will begin put in the new machine, which will run alongside a Goss Universal press that was installed in 2005, next summer.

NWNG will have the option of running the Uniliner configuration independently, or combining it with the Universal press to produce full-colour tabloid products of up to 160 pages.

The publisher prints 30 titles under contract, as well as its own titles, including the Newbury Weekly News, the weekly free distribution newspaper The Advertiser, monthly Newbury Business Today and monthly Out & About magazine.