Review of 2022: May

The AH Stockwell house was up for sale at £1.35m
The AH Stockwell house was up for sale at £1.35m

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

Walstead Group sealed a deal to print the Telegraph’s weekend supplements with production set to switch from gravure printing at Prinovis... Seven antique print machines were saved from scrap by a print novice from England after the collapse of an artisanal Tuscan printhouse, Antica Tipografia Biagini, that included Jodie Foster among its clients... First 4 Print Finishing secured a new facility that was more than five times the size of its current factory... A fourth member of an organised crime group was jailed for conspiring to supply more than £12m of counterfeit banknotes... An Edwardian seaside house and printworks was set to be stripped of its antique machinery and sold after printer-publisher AH Stockwell was bought by Andrews UK... Hague Group returned to the acquisition trail with a deal to buy PSL Print Management... The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said it would ballot members if Royal Mail management did not negotiate a “no strings” pay rise within a week...