Tributes have been paid to a veteran of the Grimsby Telegraph’s old composing room who has died at the aged of 89.

George Planer, who passed away at the town’s Princess of Wales Hospital after a two-year battle with cancer, joined the paper as a compositor when he was just 15, but remained with the company until his retirement in 1985.

One of his main duties was the operation of the Stop Press section of the paper, keeping readers up to date with racing results and breaking news.

Former Telegraph colleage Billy Howson described George as “a real gentleman of the old school.”

A seatbelt safety campaign run by the Halifax Courier is up for a national award.

Called ‘Belt Up’, it has been striving to cut road deaths and injuries in its region.

The Courier is nominated for the NHS Partner of the Year Award as a result of its collaboration with local the NHS Trust, police and fire service.

The Nottingham Evening Post’s website broke a new record for visitor numbers last month.

thisisnottingham.co.uk attracted 414,634 unique visitors, an increase of 38pc on last year, and more than 5m page impressions.

Some of the big, traffic-boosting stories included Sven-Goran Eriksson joining Notts County FC and ‘Secret Millionaire’ Chek Whyte fighting bankruptcy which alone attracted 8,000 unique visitors.

Elsewhere, the Dartford Messenger’s website has recorded its highest visitor figures since it launched over a year ago.

July’s figures showed a 79pc increase in page impressions and 131pc rise in unique users.

Hull Daily Mail reporter Angus Young has just passed the quarter century mark with the Northcliffe title.

Angus has spent the vast majority of his 25 years with the Mail as the local government reporter for Hull and East Riding.

In 2006 he was crowned the specialist reporter of the year in the Regional Press Awards.

Hampstead and Highgate Express editor Geoff Martin met London Mayor Boris Johnson to discuss a campaign to rename a London Tube stop.

Ham&High reader Walter Roberts has been writing in the Archant weekly about his fight to rebrand Archway station after London’s first mayor Dick Whittington before the 2012 Olympics.

Geoff said: “There’s no doubt that the Mayor thinks it’s a great idea. Dick Whittington was the legendary first London mayor, a historic figure, but sadly many people now believe that he lives only in pantomime.”