Today’s announcement that five Johnston Press daily newspapers are being relaunched as weeklies takes the tally of papers to make the switch over the last year to ten.

This morning Johnston revealed that the Scarborough Evening News, Halifax Courier, Northampton Chronicle and Echo, Peterborough Evening Telegraph and Northants Evening Telegraph would all become weeklies in May.

In 2011 its regional newspaper rival Northcliffe Media – a subsidiary of the Daily Mail and General Trust – led the way on weekly conversions. The first paper that made the move was the Torquay Herald Express in July, resulting in the loss of around half of the 30-strong editorial staff.