A sports editor who has spent 18 years at the same Gloucestershire newspaper is among a number of redundancies expected at Newsquest this month.

Ash Loveridge has reported on League Two outfit Forest Green for almost two decades at the Stroud News and Journal, charting their progress from non-league to a Wembley play-off final victory into the EFL in 2017.

He was put on furlough in March and has now entered redundancy consultation as Newsquest responds to “heavy declines” in advertising revenue since the Covid-19 pandemic began.