A six-month insurance wrangle has been solved thanks to the Shropshire Star's Consumer File feature.
A family wanted the full value of their six-week-old Peugeot 307 after another car ploughed into it, but Direct Line only offered them £12,000 - £3,000 less than the purchase price - until the Star stepped in.

Belfast Telegraph personnel manager Richard MacLaughlin has died, aged 60, after a short illness.
He was responsible for the Telegraph and its sister publications and had been with the company for 16 years.

The Colin Grazier Hotel, in Tamworth, which took its name from the town's war hero, is to close down.
The Tamworth Herald has been at the forefront of a battle to get recognition for the sailor, and memorial Committee chairman Phil Shanahan, who is the paper's deputy editor, is hoping the building will retain its links, whatever its future.

The Harborough Mail is challenging readers to blitz the town's grot spots.
It has published a series of tips, areas to tidy and voluntary groups to point people in the right direction.

The Reading Evening Post and sister paper the Wokingham Times have helped raise cash to get a crime prevention group back on the road.
Around £4,000 was raised to help get the Lodden Valley Crime Prevention Panel information trailer fixed after it broke down last year.

A newspaper gardening expert has been given her own radio show after guesting on Radio Cleveland's phone-in.
Brigid Press, head gardener at Middlesbrough's Nature's World, takes over the Sunday dedications show, and will continue her column in The Northern Echo.

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