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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The new owners of the Belfast-based News Letter have begun the search for a new editor following the departure of Nigel Wareing. Nigel (pictured) had worked for the former Trinity Mirror newspaper for the past year, and was previously editor-in-chief
The Halifax Evening Courier is helping to get a kerbside recycling collection scheme back up and running with a donation of £4,000. The newspaper has handed over the cash from its managed fund within the Community Foundation for Calderdale, which
The Southern Daily Echo has begun 2004 on a high, with the debut of the Queen Mary 2 giving the paper a circulation boost and its best promotional seller for a decade. While the world’s largest ocean liner loomed large
The Press Complaints Commission has published its response to the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport’s report into privacy and media intrusion.Some of the committee’s 23 proposals on reform echo moves already under way by the press watchdog to
While I was looking for information about the Irvine Herald I came across your story about Lorraine Howard’s Rotary Group Study Exchange trip to the United States.
The Telegraph and Argus has pre-empted a visit to war widow Samantha Roberts by Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon by handing him an open letter asking for a full apology over her husband’s death. The Shipley widow visited Geoff Hoon at
The editor of a weekly newspaper has quit after scooping £8.4m on the national lottery. Pat Griffiths, who until yesterday was editor of the Tindle-owned Abergavenny Chronicle, plans to put the money into the family home – a 148-acre farm
A fund to help disabled sportsmen and women in West Dorset has been set up in memory of former Bridport News sports editor Terry Collin, who died suddenly in 2002. The Terry Collin Fund has already donated £2,000 to swimmer
Mike Pennock has been appointed deputy editor of the Ipswich Evening Star. He moves from his previous role as deputy editor (production) at the Archant-owned title and will oversee the paper’s content-gathering operation, boosting the local news reporting across each
Closed-circuit TV pictures of a cyclist being sought in connection with the murder of a former local newspaper journalist have been released by detectives. Ted Rhodes, (69), who used to work for the Wandsworth Borough News, was found dead at
The Ham & High has reported on high-handed tactics it says are being used by private companies employed to enforce parking regulations. It broke the news after one of its reporters went undercover to find out what makes traffic wardens
Breaking news on a 30-year mystery is being carried at Mediaworld, the website of freelance journalist Graham Smith. He’s been following the case of The Gaul trawler for decades, campaigning for the families that lost their loved ones at sea
Two senior managers from Northcliffe Newspapers are about to retire, sparking a series of new appointments throughout the regional publishing group. Alan Goode, chief executive of Bristol United Press, and Ken Hayward, managing director at Central Independent Newspapers, will both
MP and former journalist Austin Mitchell has won the backing of 33 parliamentary colleagues for his early day motion calling for fair pay for Newsquest employees. The former TV broadcaster tabled the motion after quoting figures he said showed many
Around 250 mourners packed a crematorium chapel for the funeral of former Cannock newspaper editor Barry Gough. Many had travelled long distances to Stafford to pay tribute and support his grieving family after Barry, (54), was found dead on Cannock
The Somerset County Gazette has produced its biggest issue in the paper’s 168-year history. The 160-page edition included a record Homelife property supplement, which ran at 64 pages. It also contained a 16-page Nativity plays special, featuring more than 90