 The company attempted to re-finance, but a change in the conditions of a £200,000 funding package led to the "Enquirer" being placed into administration on 20 September, one day before it was due to publish its twenty-second issue .Twenty-six redundancies were made, with the company unable to pay staff for the month of September, leaving many financially unsettled.The following day, this message was placed on the "North West Enquirer"s web site by former editor Robert Waterhouse