[14] In November 2007, The Birmingham Press Club announced their shortlist for the Midlands Media Awards.
[15] Meetings were held back in September 2008 by the paper's publisher, Trinity Mirror Midlands, where executives proposed potentially making cuts and redundancies at their localised titles including the Echo.
[16] Mike O'Brien, MP for Warwickshire at the time, tried to tackle the cuts calling them 'serious attacks on news, journalists and journalism', further explaining the point that 'the Bedworth Echo has no office in the town' and that "some fine journalists try to keep in touch from a distance".
Steve Brown, Trinity Mirror's regional director agreed to meet O'Brien to talk over the plans.
[17][18] In July 2009, the redundancies and cutbacks which were discussed a year prior were officially announced.