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IPC Media has axed six magazines and its new events and exhibitions

business, IPC Live! as new owner AOL Time Warner tightens its grip.

The surprise move saw IPC SouthBank close four titles - Woman's Journal,

Homes & Ideas, Your Garden and Marie Claire Health & Beauty - and fold

Practical Parenting's Complete Guide to Pregnancy back into its parent

title.

IPC Connect closed Your Life, a weekly title aimed at 35-plus ABC1

women, which only launched in April.

Exhibitions business IPC Live!, created in February, was dissolved,

spelling the end of shows such as the Woman & Home Experience and the

Inspired Roadshow by Essentials and Family Circle. There will be 115 job

losses.

The news comes less than a month after AOL Time Warner completed its

acquisition of IPC for £1.15bn.

EMAP story, page 3.