Welcome to our main news index. Here you will find all the news stories that have appeared on the site since our launch in February 2000.
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A move by two reporters – Andy Nott of the Manchester Evening News and Joanne Clements of the Press Association – secured the lifting of reporting restrictions that protected the anonymity of a 13-year-old drink-driver. They handed letters to Salford
The Ellesmere Port Pioneer has been praised for helping to identify a body found in North Wales as that of a local pensioner. Ronald Shaw, (71), disappeared from his bungalow in the Cheshire town on July 27 last year. Despite
Keith Redbourn is to become the new editor of the Hampshire Chronicle. Currently editor of the Wokingham Times, he is expected to join the Winchester-based title in March, succeeding Alan Cleaver, who is moving to the Lake District. Keith (pictured)
Editor Eve Fuller is preparing to retire after more than 40 years in the regional press. Eve, (60), is to step down from her role at the Hexham Courant on February 4, ending a nine year reign at the 141-year-old
John Condliffe, chairman of the Chronicle series in Congleton, has died, aged 76. The newspaperman had spent his entire journalism career with the newspaper, joining the weekly as a cub reporter in 1943 and serving as chairman and proprietor until
Richard Yetman is to become the new editor of the Town Crier series in Cambridgeshire. The 49-year-old, who is currently production editor at the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, will take on his new role next month, in a move which will
Staff at the Manchester Evening News are being asked for their views on the idea of a free late afternoon edition of the paper, along the same lines as London’s Standard Lite. In a memo to staff editor Paul Horrocks
Guardian Media Group has pledged £250,000 towards the tsunami disaster appeal. The newspaper publisher, which owns the Manchester Evening News and the Reading Evening Post as well as more than 40 weekly titles in Berkshire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and
Lensman is gearing up for a winter challenge north of the border
Newspaper was reported to procurator fiscal – but cleared of wrongdoing
John Banks has been appointed regional managing director of Newsquest (Hampshire). Previously holding the same role in Newsquest’s South West region, his new job is based in Southampton. Newsquest (Hampshire) covers publishing centres at Andover, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Southampton and Winchester.
Photographer’s latest book is a treat for horse lovers
Andrew Punshon has been appointed group series editor of Coventry Newspapers. Previously deputy editor of the Hinckley Times, he is now responsible for the Hinckley Times and Bedworth Echo, both paid-for titles, and the free Hinckley Herald and Journal, Coventry
Sue Smith has been named as the new editor of the weekly Stroud News & Journal in Gloucestershire. She succeeds Skip Walker, who moves to the Gloucestershire Gazette as editor from the end of this month, replacing David Cullimore, who
Writers are being given a chance to win some of the £2,500 of prizes on offer in a competition surrounding the world of horse racing. No knowledge of the sport is needed, and the article or prose can be fact
Last year saw a surge in the number of press cards allocated to regional and local newspaper journalists by the Newspaper Society. The Society issued 3,546 press cards in 2004, up from 1,452 in 2003 and 1,325 for 2002. To