Regional sports reporters are being given the opportunity to quiz leading British Olympic officials at two special lunches organised by the Sports Journalists Association.

At the first event, on Thursday, June 26, British Cycling performance director Dave Brailsford will be on hand to answer journalists’ questions.

Then, on Wednesday July 23, with the 2008 Games less than a month away, the British Olympic Association’s Lord Moynihan will be available to discuss Team GB’s prospects in Beijing and in London four years later.

To book your places, call Trevor Bond on 01277 651708 or e-mail [email protected].

Pupils from Elmshurst School in Newham will be given a tour of Archant Media’s state-of-the-art presses in North London after winning a top prize in a competition organised by the capital’s schools.

The youngsters won the award for submitting the highest number of entries in the My School is Great competition.

A company which has enabled hundreds of regional papers to reproduce their pages in digital form has won the Innovation in Business prize at the Kent Business Awards.

PageSuite Limited produces the page-turning software used by Newsquest, Archant, Northcliffe and Trinity Mirror titles to power their digital editions.

Regional press political journalists will get the chance to quiz Chancellor Alistair Darling on Monday when he attends the next quarterly Newspaper Conference lunch.

The conference, currently chaired by the Yorkshire Evening Post’s Mark Hookham, is made up of Westminster representatives of more than 40 regional papers.

Jeffrey Archer is backing journalist Adrian Sudbury’s campaign to have a lesson about bone marrow donation added to the national curriculum for sixth formers. Lord Archer has signed a petition on the Downing St website supporting Adrian’s plan.

Adrian, from the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, has also appeared on Radio 5 with Victoria Derbyshire and Gary Lineker, whose son suffered with the disease. Follow his campaign at Baldy’s Blog.