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The Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield continues to expand with the appointment of a new staff lecturer.
David Holmes joins the university from BBC Radio Sheffield, where he has worked as a reporter, producer, news editor and assistant editor.
After studying law at the LSE and journalism at City University, he began his career on the Sheffield Morning Telegraph, where he spent several years as municipal correspondent.


The Lincolnshire Echo has joined a partnership to reduce the growing number of road deaths in the county by launching a new website: Cut the Carnage.
Editor Mike Sassi said: “As the premier newsgathering organisation in Lincolnshire, it is our responsibility, if not our duty, to take a leading role in such an obviously important campaign.”


Plans are being drawn up for a memorial to commemorate the Merchant Navy in East Anglia using funds raised through an appeal in the East Anglian Daily Times.
The paper launched its Forgotten Heroes Appeal last year to install a fitting tribute to the men and women who served their country as merchant seamen.


A York mother who successfully fought an international custody battle was able to return to the UK with her son partly thanks to donations totaling more than £1,000 from Evening Press readers.
She had to go through traumatic custody proceedings after the death of the boy’s father.


Journalist and public relations expert Bill Jones has been appointed president of the Tamworth division of the Southern Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
He is a former Tamworth Herald journalist and is director of PROfile West Midlands.


A former Matlock Mercury photographer has scooped a series of awards for her picture-taking.
Lucile Spencer won four East Midlands Master Photographer Awards.


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