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A Devon MP has demanded that health minister Yvette Cooper meets staff at the Exeter Express & Echo to discuss health fears over telephone mast emissions.
The bid is the latest move in the paper’s Shock Waves campaign, which is calling for more research into the issue.

The daily news conference at the Eastern Daily Press was preserved in fluorescent paint by sub-editor Pete Kelley, who was asked to produce a life-sized caricature of the meeting.
The mural is on a blank wall in the conference room and appears as a scene of “comic pandemonium”, according to those who have seen it.

Volunteers are busy collecting tokens from the Leicester Mercury in a bid to win a minibus for their charity group.
The paper is giving groups a chance to win the £25,000 minibus – and the organization that collects the most tokens will scoop the prize.

World Cup revellers in Bristol were able to enjoy their footballing fun more than in some other parts of the country, after it printed 5,000 Sven-Goran Eriksson masks in time for the unfortunate quarter-final against Brazil.

A group of trainee journalists has launched a website , billed as containing “no-nonsense comment on the latest news, politics, entertainment, sport and life in general”.
Journalists can submit articles for the website – simply go to the Contacts link on the home page for the chance to express yourself on the world-wide-web.


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