YOU may be reading your copy of the Journal today, Thursday, but you may have to wait another 24 hours - like last week - and fume about the lateness of your Journal - but take a look at the pictures elsewhere on this site.

The Worcester headquarters of Newsquest (Midlands South) Ltd, are smack in the middle of Worcester city, on the banks of the Severn and that's where the Evesham Journal Series and the Admag are printed.

Situated immediately opposite the River Severn, the building has been right at the very centre of the flooding which has been dominating national news bulletins in the last week.

However, not even the worst floods for more than 50 years have stopped the production of your favourite weekly newspaper, or other Newsquest titles - but it has delayed things.

The depth of the flood waters means that lorries delivering newsprint (the actual paper) and taking the papers from the building cannot get through.Therefore, the titles are being printed on presses in other parts of the country.

The Journal is being printed at Chester, along with the Redditch and Bromsgrove Advertiser, the Hereford Times and the Kidderminster Shuttle.

The Admag, with the Malvern Gazette and Berrows Worcester Journal are due to go to Brighton, the Halesowen and Dudley News to Bristol and the Stourbridge News to Brighton.

Reduced

The knock-on effect of different print times and press centres also means our colour coverage has been reduced.

Derek Phillips, distribution manager at Worcester, explained that the Journal being printed at Chester - about three hours away by road - combined with its different print time meant it was impossible to get the papers back to the wholesalers in time for normal "day of sale".

Direct delivery papers in the Stratford, Chipping Campden, Moreton and central Cotswolds were largely unaffected as a member of staff drove from Worcester to take them from Chester to the areas.

However, wholesale deliveries were a little less flexible and papers in these areas - Chipping Norton, outlying Cotswold areas and the Evesham area - were affected.

"As soon as we can print them in Worcester we will," he added. "But the water is so deep we can't physically get vehicles to deliver newsprint and take the papers away.

He estimated that the water across the Hylton Road - which runs between the building and the river, was about 2ft deep on Tuesday.

"We can deal with a certain depth of water, getting papers out in bigger vehicles, but where our entrance is it's too deep for even big vehicles," he said.