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The Press Complaints Commission is moving on March 6.
The new address will be Halton House, 20-23 Holborn, London EC1N 2JD, and the telephone number will be 020 7831 0022.


Small business owners are celebrating after the Fraserborough Herald’s Shop Local campaign generated some £780,000 for the town’s economy.
The Archant-owned title ran a six-week promotion in the run-up to Christmas with 56 shops and businesses being involved. The cash total spent locally is double what was spent last year.


A throwaway line at the bottom of a letter sent in to the Coventry Evening Telegraph about a golden wedding led to a front page splash that was followed up by the national media.
Reporter James McCarthy spotted that the wife had spent 25 years of her life blind, and had only been able to see following a heart attack.


More than 5,000 visitors have seen an exhibition of photographs from the Cumberland News Photographic Archive depicting major events in the area during the past 50 years.
The ‘Flashback’ exhibition is the result of two years of painstaking research work, and closes next month.


Steve Pegg, the transport and distribution manager at the Derby Evening Telegraph was honoured with a special edition of the newspaper to mark his retirement after 30 years’ service.