Daily Star editor Peter Hill has joined the Press Complaints Commission as an editorial member, replacing Neil Wallis, former editor of The Sunday People.
Before joining the Daily Star in 1978, Peter had worked at several other national and regional newspapers, including the Oldham Chronicle, Manchester Evening News and Huddersfield Examiner.

A collaboration between the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Post has resulted in a significant increase in the orchestra's audiences this year.
The paper has reported a 22 per cent rise in ticket sales and takings up 16 per cent.

Lottery bosses were discussing a £2m plan to revamp Grimsby's People's Park, hours after Grimsby Telegraph readers staged a massive clean-up at the amenity.
Scores of volunteers picked litter, painted fences and potted plants in the initiative.

The Skegness Standard's adopted charity GFS Platform is appealing for the help of local tradespeople to help get a long-planned-for project off the ground.
Money and materials to revamp the charity's premises have already been pledged and work can get under way once the experts step forward to help.

Celebrations to launch Liverpool's Capital of Culture Year in 2008 have involved the Liverpool Echo.
Three readers and their friends won the chance to spend a day at the paper's Old Hall Street HQ to see how the Echo is put together and printed.

The News & Star in Carlisle is leading the way with a campaign to find bone marrow donors for the Anthony Nolan Trust.
It held a Save a Life clinic where people could give a sample of blood for testing to see if they were a match for people who need a marrow transplant.

Parents are backing the Leicester Mercury's Birth Right campaign, which is calling for women to have the choice of giving birth in their home town.
The paper says mums and dads are backing demands for a maternity unit to be built as part of a new hospital for Market Harborough.

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