A stark warning about taking care in the office while the firefighters are on strike led to a downbeat memo from the Derby Telegraph's Chris Baker, who in addition to reminding staff about rules on smoking and fire drill, broke the sad news that there would be no chips for the duration.
He said: "Unfortunately, this also means that there will be no deep fat fryers in use in the staff restaurant until the end of the strike."

The regional press was lauded on BBC Radio Five following a survey that found that if people could choose only one newspaper, the regionals came out on top when compared with the nationals.
Chichester Observer editor Keith Newbery said: "We are directly answerable to our readers. They can approach us and often do, very directly."

The wife of Paul McCartney has added her voice to the Newcastle Evening Chronicle's Lifesavers campaign.
Heather Mills said the blood donor initiative appealed to her because her life was saved by blood donations when she lost a leg and needed a transfusion nine years ago.

The Bristol Evening Post's fifth literary lunch had a spicy time, when former Tory chairman Michael Dobbs and broadcaster Penny Junor - who wrote a biography on John Major - were among the guests.
The talk soon turned to politics, in the weeks after Edwina Currie's revelations, when Penny said of the former PM: "He's not dull and grey at all. He's tall, he's broad and enormously courteous, charming and tactile."

Lincolnshire Echo readers have donated £1,300 towards funding a revolutionary cancer treatment.
The money will go to research at a city hospital into a system that sees patients injected with a vaccine to "switch on" cancer-fighting cells in their bodies.

The South Wales Evening Post has thrown its weight behind the Swansea City Supporters' trust's loan player appeal, by pledging the first week's wages.
The idea is to provide enough money to allow the cash-strapped football club to sign new players to bolster the side's Third Division survival bid.

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