PRONTAPRINT'S Durham office has won a contract to provide the city's university with digital design, printing and copying service.

The £300,000 deal will see the operations, in New Elvet, handle a range of Durham University business, including offset printing together with design and copying, ranging from letterheads to lecture notes and handbooks.

The contract is an extension of an existing deal struck by husband-and-wife team Giles and Nancy Radford.

The couple have owned and managed Prontaprint, in Durham, since 1989 and have held the agreement with the university for the past seven years.

The contract was put out for renewal last September, with invitations to tender extended to firms across Europe.