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LONDON – Ireland’s biggest paper, Independent News 8 Media’s tabloid the Sunday World, posted a circulation fall year on year for the first time in five years, according to the ABC’s Island of Ireland report.

LONDON – News International has announced plans to close thelondonpaper, its free evening newspaper, just three years after it launched.

LONDON – Specialist radio company UBC has bought radio and internet marketing company, Radio Lynx, from Music Marketing Services Limited for an initial £1.6m.

LONDON – Nectar, the multi-brand loyalty scheme, has revealed increased usage of its card as incentive-hungry consumers look for better deals. LMUK, the company that runs the Nectar scheme, says there are now 21 Nectar card swipes every second of every day, compared to 19 a year ago.

LONDON – Bartle Bogle Hegarty is making 10 per cent of its staff, around 40 people, redundant.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Larger ad formats might be in vogue right now, but when it comes to online display advertising, bigger is not always better. Ad effectiveness depends less on size than it does on shape and placement, according to Dynamic Logic.

LONDON – Beattie McGuinness Bungay has unveiled its packaging design concept for a range of Pretty Polly tights designed by the House of Holland.

LONDON – ITV1’s ratings bombed last night when it aired a Champions League qualifying match between Greece’s Panathinaikos and Spain’s Atletico Madrid, giving it an audience share of just 7.4%, according to unofficial overnight figures.

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LONDON – Regional publishers’ association The Newspaper Society has written to the minister for local government, Rosie Winterton, to highlight concerns about local council’s publications.