Author David Cornwell, better known as John le Carre, has passed on some of the tricks of his trade to students on the professional writing course at Falmouth College.
He told students about his life as a writer, how he develops ideas into stories and about the practicalities of adapting best-selling novels into films.

Regional publisher and contract printer Kent Messenger Group is on the right tracks for growth after securing a significant new contract.
The Maidstone-based media group has been appointed by Connex to produce the train operator's lifestyle magazine UpFront.

Pressure from the Evening Star in Ipswich is being credited with helping grandmother Mary Martin stay in the country after being threatened with deportation.
She was born in the USA, is officially an American citizen and had no right to stay here, the Foreign Office claimed, despite her having lived in the UK since the age of two.

The Bolton Evening News has launched a campaign to ask the council to think again about increasing car parking charges.
It fears shoppers will be driven away to neighbouring towns if parking rates are set at twice that of rival shopping centres.

A website set up to support the Bristol Evening Post Save Our Streets campaign has registered its 3,000th user.
It covers personal safety, has a daily robbery update and a 'name and shame' section about convicted of robbery and muggings.

The Duke of Edinburgh visited Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire to mark the 50th anniversary of devastating east coast floods, and spent time reading the Grimsby Telegraph's coverage from 1953.
The paper reprinted its original broadsheet edition to commemorate the disaster.

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