Below are summaries of the latest complaints involving the regional press which have been resolved between the parties involved, with help from the Press Complaints Commission.

South London Press
Lorraine Russell complained on behalf of her brother, Leon Russell, that a report on his conviction for attempted murder contained inaccuracies – including the claim that he was convicted of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life – and included the partial address of the family home. She also provided a copy of a right wing blog that had been written about her brother's case – after the publication of the article – which included the full address of the family home and contained direct threats. (Clause 1, 3)
Resolution: The newspaper made clear that the court had placed no restrictions on the publication of the complainant's address. However, the newspaper agreed to annotate its records to reflect the complainant's concerns: that her brother was not convicted of possessing a firearm and that her family had faced serious difficulties after the publication of their address. The complaint was resolved on this basis.

Clevedon Mercury
Joyce Pinfield, of Bromsgrove, complained that an article was inaccurate in its presentation of claims made against her by her former partner. She said that the piece had failed to distinguish between established fact and disputed allegations. There were also one or two points of simple inaccuracy. (Clause 1)
Resolution: The matter was resolved when the newspaper indicated that it had removed the article from its electronic archives.

Burton Mail
Tyrone Herod, of Staffordshire, complained that an article which reported on his dismissal from his employment as a fireman contained inaccurate details. (Clause 1)
Resolution: The newspaper made clear that the information in the article was based on sources within the fire service. However, the editor gave an undertaking that it would give the complainant the opportunity to tell his side of the story once the employment tribunal – which the complainant was bringing against his former employer – had concluded. The complainant indicated that he was happy to resolve his complaint on the basis of that undertaking.

Press & Journal (Aberdeen)
Christopher McLean, of Aberdeen, complained that a court report had misrepresented his plea, which contained legal parlance conveying that there was no contact with the kicks to the boy's back, or with the jotter to any part of the boy's body. (Clause 1)
Resolution: The complaint was resolved when the newspaper published the following clarification: 'Further to a recent article (‘Man hit boy with jotter in playground', 29 June), we have been asked to make clear that Christopher McLean, of 12 Kingswood Avenue, Kingswells, Aberdeen, accepted, at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, on 28 June 2007, that he knocked a six year old boy to the ground by striking him on the face, but denied that he made any further contact with him when he then repeatedly kicked at him in the region of the lower back and struck out towards him with a jotter. This plea was accepted by the Procurator Fiscal.'

EMPICS (Press Association)
A man complained that a photograph of him taken at the Tottenham Hotspur v Sevilla UEFA Cup match – in which he appeared injured – had been misleadingly used in a newspaper article about football violence. Following the resolution of the complaint with the newspaper, the complainant wished for the source of the image to be contacted to make it aware of his concerns. (Clause 1)
Resolution: The complaint was resolved when the news agency attached a note to the photograph on its archive making clear that a complaint had been made through the PCC and that care should be taken to ensure that the picture was used only in an appropriate context. It also circulated a note to its subscribers making them aware of the situation.

Press & Journal
A man complained that a photograph used to accompany an article about an election candidate for the Scottish Conservatives intruded into his privacy. The complainant made clear that the photograph in question, in which he was featured with the candidate, had been taken at a private party. (Clause 3)
Resolution: The complaint was resolved when the newspaper removed the photograph from its archive.

Northscot Press Agency
A man complained that a photograph of him supplied by the agency to a national newspaper to accompany an article about an election candidate for the Scottish Conservatives intruded into his privacy. (Clause 3)
Resolution: The complaint was resolved when the agency permanently deleted the photograph in question from its archive.

Kenilworth Weekly News
Christopher Edgerton, of Kenilworth, complained about a reader's letter that was published as part of a local debate on the traffic congestion caused by parents parking during the school run. A letter was published from a woman who described the aggressive behaviour of a local resident who was mowing the verge when she picked up her son. The woman said she had reported the resident – who was not named in the letter – to the police who paid him a visit. The complainant felt that readers of the letter would incorrectly assume that he was the unnamed resident, as he had publicly spoken out about the parking habits of parents, and he had received a visit from the police on a separate matter (which was resolved amicably). He also raised concerns that the police had told him that they had no formal record of making any such visit as described in the reader's letter. (Clause 1)
Resolution: The editor first apologised to the complainant for failing to respond to the concerns he had raised with the newspaper directly. He also reassured the complainant that he had spoken to the author of the letter who had confirmed that the complainant was not the unnamed resident she had described. The editor agreed to annotate the newspaper's records with a note of the complainant's concerns. The complainant agreed to resolve his complaint on this basis.