Ripley and Heanor News reporter Richard Gadsby bid a fond farewell to family, friends and colleagues ahead of his ‘trip of a lifetime’ travelling to trek across Australia.
His replacement is Rebecca Hampson, formerly of the Ilkeston Advertiser, who is preparing to report on Richard’s progress in a series of features for the paper.

The Leicester Mercury is to send a dossier to the education secretary calling for fairer funding for local schools.
The move came at the end of a week when the paper revealed how badly Leicestershire schools were hit by a policy that resulted in county schools being the worst funded in the UK.

Sales of the Bath Chronicle were boosted by around 15 per cent when the paper carried a coupon offering people the chance to apply for free tickets to one of the concerts of the year.
The opening of the city’s new spa is being marked by a performance in front of the world-famous Royal Crescent by the legendary Three Tenors.

More than 400 guests attended The Argus Achievement Awards which celebrated the everyday heroics of people from all walks of life.
They were crowned for their astonishing deeds at a star-studded ceremony at The Corn Exchange in Brighton.

Newspapers in Education has launched new free educational resource Headlines and Deadlines Key Stage 3: Style File, an 88-page teacher’s book contains articles and photographs taken from recent editions of the Evening Chronicle, The Journal and the Sunday Sun.
The texts can be transferred onto overhead projectors or photocopied for whole class teaching through the process of shared reading and writing activities.

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