Merger Update

17 Apr 2007 12:00

Office of Fair Trading17 April 2007 Merger Clearance: The OFT has decided, on the information currently available to it, not to referthe following merger to the Competition Commission under the provisions of theEnterprise Act 2002: Anticipated acquisition by Johnston Press Plc of eight newspaper titles andassets from Archant Limited The text of this decision will be placed on the Office of Fair Trading's website at www.oft.gov.uk as soon as is reasonably practicable. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange