A PRINTING firm which closed its North Yorkshire operation with the loss of about 200 jobs made a loss of £14.2 million in its final year of operations, its accounts have revealed.

RR Donnelley UK Directory Ltd, which once counted the Yellow Pages as one of its most famous customers, shut its site at Flaxby, near Harrogate, on New Year's Eve.

The firm was previously based in Boroughbridge Road, York, before moving to Flaxby in 2001. A series of redundancies were made in the ensuing decade.

Its accounts for the year ending December 31, 2015, which have now been made public, show its turnover was £32,698,000, and it made a loss of £14,216,000.

Restructuring costs accounted for £7,497,000 of the loss, while "impairment of tangible fixed assets" came to £3,329,000.

The Press mounted a successful campaign in the 1990s to keep RR Donnelley jobs in York, after it emerged the American-based company was planning to close down its factory in Boroughbridge Road. A petition signed by 3,200 readers was taken to its headquarters in Chicago by the newspaper’s then business editor, Jeff Newton.