Keen golfer Janis Gallon-Smith is looking forward to working on her golf handicap after calling time on a hectic career at Aberdeen Journals.
The customer services director retired after 16 years with the company, which began as classified manager with Aberdeen Journals in 1986, and becoming advertising director in 1995. She was appointed customer services director two years ago.

Sheffield Star readers have handed over £250,000 during 2002 to help the city’s pioneering NSPCC project to open a young people’s centre.
It is already open and working to help the 6,600 children believed to be victims of neglect and abuse in Sheffield.

Community groups in Bolton are to benefit from money donated by the Bolton Evening News’s parent company for a young people’s housing scheme in the city.
The Gannett Foundation is the charitable wing of the Evening News’s parent company Newsquest, and has donated £2,000.

The Eastbourne Herald and Gazette series has raised £20,000 for local charities with its Spirit of Christmas Appeal.
The newspapers asked companies and groups for donations, both of cash and their services and the response was tremendous, with more than 40 groups benefiting from the appeal which has run for five weeks.
Editor Peter Lindsey said: “So many companies have helped out, from Boots donating £500 of toiletries for the homeless at Christmas, the Rotary Clubs donating £1750 to send needy children to the pantomime, to Drusillas zoo park treating disabled children to a day out.”

The Reading Chronicle teamed up with two charities to help disadvantaged families and the homeless in the town.
Churches, schools and companies helped organise collections and the toys and tins arrived by the vanload, as more than 25,000 toys were donated.
Thousands of tins of food were also donated to stock a mobile soup kitchen serving people who sleep rough.

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