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The Powys County Times & Express has gone on sale with a complete new look for its latest edition. The flagship North Wales Newspapers weekly has a new masthead and change of headline and text fonts. Graham Breeze, editor in
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Women reporters at the Weston & Somerset Mercury have been issued with personal attack alarms following a spate of sex attacks in the town. The attacker has been linked to six incidents in Weston-super-Mare during the past few weeks and
A city transport chief has abandoned an inquiry into how the local newspaper identified a new park-and-ride site – when the paper revealed HE was the source! The Leicester Mercury decided to save the council time and money by revealing
Basingstoke Gazette reporter Suzanne Rutter is proving to be a real high flier. Suzanne, who joined the paper as a trainee in August, joined former Red Arrows pilots for a stunt-laden flight over Hampshire. Along with trainee photographer Tom Bell-Chambers,
The National Union of Journalists today launched a national campaign for improved pay at newspapers published by Newsquest. Under the slogan Fair Pay Now, hundreds of journalists from Newsquest titles across the country have signed up to the campaign. It
Staff at Lancashire newspapers are mourning the death of their colleague Tim Procter, who died of a heart attack on Monday. The 63-year-old worked full-time as a reporter at the Nelson Leader from the late 50s before joining the Clitheroe
An octogenarian who visited the Lincolnshire Echo’s offices to see if the paper could locate a lady he met 57 years earlier has ended up marrying the girl – who’s now 76. Widower John Hanks, (80), went to see journalist
Readers of a Hampshire weekly have stepped in to double a reward the paper put up to help snare a sniper who’s been shooting cats in the area. The anonymous offer has raised the Tadley Gazette’s reward bounty to £400.
Former Richmond and Twickenham Times series editor Reginald Ward has died, aged 90. The newspaper series has only had eight editors in its 130 year history. Reginald had the job between 1953 and 1976. He began work as a journalist
The Grimsby Telegraph’s football writer has returned to the press box after being barred by Grimsby Town FC. The club took exception to some of what Stuart Rowson wrote and even failed to relent when the paper published what amounted
A former editor of the Jersey Evening Post has become a Lieutenant-Bailiff of the Royal Court. Mike Rumfitt has been a Jurat – a lay member of the judiciary – since November 1991, and now as a Lieut-Bailiff has taken
A regional newspaper editor has been targeted by a former safecracker who believes he has every right to confront his detractors. Peter Barron, editor of the Northern Echo, is tonight identified as one of George Reynolds’ “local targets” in a
A reporter got to grips with some of the obstacles faced by blind people, when he took a stroll down his local high street blindfold. The stunt was to draw attention to World Sight Day, when Mike Flynn, of the
The Evening Press at York rolled out the red carpet and turned Japanese for a prestige visit to the city by the Ambassador of Japan. The paper produced a special supplement with a front-page dominated by the word “welcome” and
It was a case of gamekeeper turned poacher for the Romford Recorder’s Barry Kirk when he sat down to watch a performance he penned himself. The deputy editor and theatre critic usually sits in the auditorium of the Queen’s Theatre