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Paul Linford

Paul Linford has been Publisher of HoldtheFrontPage since June 2008. He is a former assistant editor of The Journal, Newcastle and has also worked for the South Wales Echo, Derby Telegraph and Mansfield Chad.

Polish-language weekly loses nothing in translation

Does the UK’s Polish community have a stronger stomach for Anglo-Saxon slang than the rest of the populace – or was it just a gaffe? Either way, the end result was the same:  hundreds of copies of a weekly newspaper

Paper forgets its address as subbing curse strikes

If sod’s law dictates that stories about media gaffes invariably contain mistakes, then maybe it’s also the case that stories about subbing invariably contain subbing errors. Certainly that was the experience of the Grimsby Telegraph when it published a story