A campaign to counter the rising tide of stop-and-search actions against photographers working in public places has been launched.

The British Journal of Photography is running ‘Not A Crime’ in reaction to a glut of recent stories about both amateur and press photographers being questioned by police under the new Counter Terrorism Act 2008.

The magazine is inviting photographers to upload images of themselves with a placard declaring ‘Not a crime’ or ‘I am not a terrorist’ to its group on photo sharing website Flickr.

Visit not-a-crime.com for more information.

The Scotsman’s award-winning sports writer Mike Aitken is bidding farewell to the title at the end of the month.

He joined the Edinburgh-based daily as a trainee in 1973 and was last year crowned the best regional journalist by the Sports Journalists’ Association.

The Open golf championship, which finished on Sunday in Ayrshire, was his 26th and last for the Johnston Press morning title.

Intrepid News Shopper reporter Dan Keel is taking on his ninth challenge in the paper’s long-running ‘Dan Dares’ series of features.

He will be placing himself in the trusted hands of Magic Circle vice-president Jack Delvin who is planning to chop his head off using a guillotine.

Dan has previously travelled from his London office to Brighton for free, failed to crack the Rubik’s cube and completed a wing walk – all in the name of journalism.

Visit the News Shopper website to keep up-to-date with his latest challenge.

The Uxbridge Gazette’s website recorded a massive spike in hits after exclusively publishing a local council memo about swine flu.

The message from Hillingdon Borough Council came following the death of six-year-old Chloe Buckley.

Unique users of uxbridgegazette.co.uk rose by 62pc on the day the memo went live.

The newspaper was deluged with calls from readers seeking information about the virus and wanting to make their views on the story known.

Freelance reporter Fiona Shepherd had a busy weekend at the T in the Park festival, in Kinross.

Not only was she submitting countless band reviews, she also took to the stage with her group Parsonage Choir.

Some photos of Fiona and the festival can be see on Scotsman.com.