Journalists who lost their jobs when the weekly newspapers they worked for ceased publication are to receive money they are owed after a near-three-year fight.
Editorial staff who were employed at Lyme Regis-based View From Newspapers will now receive notice pay settlements and additional payments awarded by an employment tribunal after Duncan Williams, the final owner of the group, was declared bankrupt.
The money will be paid by the Insolvency Service after the Plymouth County Court ruling against Mr Williams, which means the government steps in to pay at least a proportion of what the former staff are owed.
Mr Williams, pictured, had bought the company for 1 on 16 January 2018, 12 days after 26 redundancies were announced at the View…
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