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File of correspondence on accounting and financial matters, relating to Comet Newspapers, and on staff matters. Documents include applications made for jobs within the company, and documents relating to the provision of pensions (1964-71); comments and reports on the company's relationship with other printing presses (1964); memorandum and articles of for Comet Newspapers Ltd. (1964); forecasts of weekly revenue and expenditure (nd); budget information (1970-1), and correspondence on shares held in the company, and loans agreed (1965-72).

Principal correspondents are Kenneth Searle and Ronald Richards, Director of Comet Newspapers.

Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

File of correspondence relating to the feisibility of establishing a local radio station for Manchester, and the logistics involved in doing so.

Included are correspondence with Anthony Wedgwood Benn, HM Postmaster General, on awarding a licence (1966); memorandum on information available to The Newspaper Society with regard to local sound broadcasting stations (1967); correspondence with Charles Lawrence, Terry Bate and Jocelyn Stevens of Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd. (Daily Express) and Sidney Bernstein of Granada, on the possiblity of a collaborative project (1967-71); memorandum on Local Broadcasting in the Public Interest (2968); extracts and notes made on meetings held with the Press Association, discussing the proposals (1971); a report titled 'Local Commercial Radio, An Appraisal by The Development Division, MG and EN Ltd' (1971); presentation document titled 'Local Broadcasting, Expanatory Notes on Background, Cost and Revenue Estimates and Likely Stations' (1971); correspondence with the Standard Broadcasting Corporation Ltd and with Rediffusion Ltd on using their services (1972); report on Populations within the Mersey Regional Division (undated), and general correspondence on establishing a station, with other Guardian personnel.

Also includes newspaper clippings on the subject.

Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

File titled 'Looking Ahead', containing reports and correspondence on the newspaper industry as a whole; on Comet's perceived competitors, and copies of minutes made at meetings held by the company directors.
It also contains correspondence relating to a proposed new weekly newspaper, in the Reading, Kent and Southend areas (1964), a project elsewhere referred to as the 'Looking Ahead' or 'Richards' project.
Principle correspondent is Ronald Richards, Director of Comet Newspapers.

Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Creator: Searle; Kenneth, Arthur