lorna, tell us a little bit about archant. the titles in the regions that you cover. archant, we ve been around for about a years. we have around 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.
an proof of address or an id to register at gps yet they are still barriers and we need that information to get the people that need it. we need journalist from that of those communities to update that. advocate ok, that s a flavour of my four as of the stories were looking at there. lorna, tell us a little bit about argent. the titles in the regions that you cover. archant, we ve been around for about a years. we have around 50 newspaper titles which for daily titles, we cover east anglia, the southwest, temperature 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 it does the damage is slightly stronger top in terms of national coverage, national coverage is important, to bring stories to the agenda.
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this is a company that bought out jpi media at the end of last year. again, a little bit like lorna, give us a sense of the titles that are currently in your portfolio. i obviously, jpi media is a historicl regional publisher and was bought over by national poc at the time of year. i there are approximately 150 newspaper titles - across the uk that we operate. ranging from the scotsman to the yorkshire post, - a real range of regional, national and local titles. i think the interesting thing| with what we done this year since march is try to take . a new approach with digital first, only publications. so national world was the first . of those to launch in late march. we are now five months in, just over five months - and are getting to the stage now where we are launching - new city brands across somej of the major cities in the uk. so yeah, there is a lot of competition in the regional media but i think it s an exciting time. and we are trying to do things