Review of 2022: June

Brothers Julian (L) and Lincoln Barnwell with the ship's bell
Brothers Julian (L) and Lincoln Barnwell with the ship's bell

Our annual round-up of all the big news stories from the past 12 months – June.

Paragon Group acquired The Lettershop Group following a protracted process that was impacted by the failure of YM Group sister companies... Merseyside trade printer WirralCo fell into liquidation and joined the long list of pandemic victims in print... 110 firefighters and more than 30 fire appliances tackled a major blaze at Smurfit Kappa’s SSK Paper Mill in Nechells, Birmingham... DMG Media announced the closure of its newspaper printing site at Hillsea, Portsmouth which it bought from JPI Media in October 2020... Nationwide Print was to be shut down in an orderly fashion the following month, after owner Julian Hocking received “an offer he couldn’t refuse” for the Cornish company’s buildings... Denmaur Independent Papers acquired the business and assets of the Fine Paper and Conversion division from Middleton Paper Company... Brothers Julian and Lincoln Barnwell, joint managing directors of Barnwell Print, were lauded for their roles in finding and identifying a 17th-century shipwreck dubbed the most important maritime discovery since the Mary Rose...