The former Evening Times offices in Glasgow's Albion Street are to be transformed into luxury flats and shops.
Previous proposals for the site were rejected by planning chiefs but they favour the current proposals, to create 149 flats and add a ninth floor to the building.

The Birmingham Evening Mail is taking readers back in time each week with an eight-page look at the way the city used to be.
Readers are helping supply old pictures for the Saturday pull-outs, which began with a look at schooldays in years gone by.

Plymouth Evening Herald journalist Katie Tokus is the latest reporter to have been "speed dating" to give readers an insight into the growing craze.
She asked them their name, age and star sign, as well as more demanding questions about body hair and where they lived - then asked if she could take their photo: all in the interests of journalism, of course!

The Herald Express Stop the Rot campaign has been given the backing of the Prime Minister.
Tony Blair wrote a personal letter in support of the Torquay newspaper's bid to tackle anti-social behaviour and declining standards.

Work has finally begun to install speed cameras on one of Hampshire's most dangerous roads, marking a milestone in the Southern Daily Echo's campaign to cut the death toll there.
The south coast title has put pressure on highways chiefs for speed cameras, double white lines, filter lanes, crossings and new speed limits.

The Nottingham Evening Post has launched a campaign to demand the Home Secretary outlaws the manufacture, sale and importation of fake firearms.
The paper took up the cudgels after four youths held an unloaded ball-bearing gun to a local woman's head and pulled the trigger ten times.

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