—Cambridge News cuts: The regional newspaper casualties keep on piling up. Today it’s the turn of Iliffe News and Media, the privately-held owner of the Cambridge News, which is axing about 80 staff across its stable of daily and weekly papers. The company’s group media director David Fordham blamed the restructuring firmly on the advertising downturn. The 30-day consultation should be over just in time for Christmas. From holdthefrontpage.

—Arabic business newspaper launch: Media investment continues unabated in the Middle East with the launch of Alroya Altiqtissadiya, the United Arab Emirates’ first Arabic language business newspaper. An Arabic/English website will be launched along with the newspaper in January and a mobile service is due in nine months’ time. Alroya’s parent company I-Media was launched three months ago by the UAE’s minister for presidential affairs Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, a member of the Emirati Royal Family who bought Manchester City FC earlier this year. Via The National.

—Pay freeze and no bonus for Trinity staff: Hard Times at Canary Wharf—there will be no Christmas bonus and no annual pay review for all Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) staff this year, as they found out in an internal memo today. The company says its total job cut tally will reach 1,200 by the end of the year and it either has or will shut down 44 of its newspapers and supplements to make ends meet, but that belt-tightening clearly was not enough. A Trinity spokesman told us today the measures were taken to protect the business during “the severe economic downturn”. Remaining Trinity employees will be glad to know a bonus scheme will be reinstated next year.