The loss of a major customer together with a continuing reduction in order levels at a time of declining demand within the UK printing industry have adversely affected the company.
McKinsey makes the striking claim that "the ratio of UK household debt to disposable income would not return to its pre-bubble trend for up to a decade" - which implies that as we in the UK look for a return to more normal levels of economic growth, momentum is not going to be provided by consumer spending for perhaps up to 10 years.
Scotland spent more cash than it raised last year, although debt levels were lower than the UK as a whole, official figures have suggested.
BBC: Gers figures show Scotland's debt 'lower than UK level'
After days of flooding that brought parts of the UK to a standstill, river and groundwater levels are still high in many areas.
The global economic downturn led levels of work-related stress in the UK to soar, a British Academy report says.
The research findings come just days after government experts warned the UK was at risk of a potentially fatal outbreak of measles because immunisation levels had dropped dramatically.
Mr Clegg argued that life chances could not be evened out simply by reducing inequality, pointing to Australia and Canada as examples of countries with a similar gap between the rich and the poor as the UK but much better levels of social mobility.
Usk's record over the past 12 months has been exemplary, says the trust, with an assault rate of just 0.3%, almost double the UK's prisoner activity levels (37.9 hours) and a drug abuse rate of 3.6%.
After a long period lagging behind the rest of the UK, the outlook in Scotland has jumped to levels last seen in 2007, the survey suggested.
The jobs outlook in Scotland has returned to pre-recession levels and is continuing to catch up with the rest of the UK, according to a business survey.
Conservative ministers, who are committed to substantially reducing levels of net migration, are under pressure from backbenchers to say how the UK will deal with a potential influx of new arrivals.
Higher levels of school autonomy are a characteristic of many higher performing systems - headed by China, the Netherlands, the UK and Hong Kong (which is considered as a separate school system in such education rankings).
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