Every week seems to get busier. Let me re-phrase that. Every day seems to get busier. As the industry wide crisis (or panic as it is known in our office) grows, meetings, days and weeks run into each other.

We have rushed headlong into April amid pay freezes, redundancies, rumours of closures and takeovers. As we all know of course, times flies when you are enjoying yourself. You would need to be a masochist to be enjoying this particular mess and it is official - things are getting worse and will amost certainly deteriorate in the coming months.

I travelled by train to London on Tuesday with Stephen Boyd from the STUC. We were giving evidence (or a variety of opinion and fact) to the Scottish Affairs Committee on the Crisis Facing the Scottish Newspaper Industry. Other speakers included Neil Blain and Martin Boyle two expert/academics whose opinions appeared to be far more succinct and theoretical than mine and Stephen as we tried to deal with the economic and industrial element of the crisis. Additional opinions will be sought from Mark Hollinshead, John McLelland and Donald Martin -watch it live on the internet, the address is available somewhere on our site.