The publisher of the UK’s largest regional daily, the Express and Star, has confirmed it is closing a weekly newspaper next week.

The free Hereford Journal, which incorporates the Ross on Wye and Leominster Journals, recorded an average circulation of 39,377 in 2013, according to ABC.

There will be no editorial redundancies made as a result of the closure, although Midland News Association did announce in April that 76 jobs – including 12 in editorial – were at risk of redundancy.