Journalists represented by the National Union of Journalists at Newsquest Bradford, which publishes the Telegraph & Argus, Craven Herald, Keighley News, Ilkley Gazette and Wharfedale Observer, have voted to accept a two-year-pay deal.
Most will receive a 2.65 per cent deal this year, with inflation-linked increases in 2005.

Jim Chisholm, director of the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper Project for the World Association of Newspapers is challenging the perception of "what is news?".
He said: "We need to think a lot harder about what constitutes news. News needs to be more tuned to personal priorities and this means journalists moving from wide audience, low relevance stories to ones with low audience and greater relevance."

A Bolton Evening News picture exhibition in Westhoughton has attracted hundreds of visitors keen to take a look at the past through the work of the newspaper's photographic staff. The exhibition has now closed.

Four charities have benefited from £1,000 donations after the Hull Daily Mail was named Northcliffe's centre of the year.
The newspaper was handed £5,000 to share between local charities and had £4,000 left after giving the first donation to its charity of the year, Case Training Services.

Detective writer Alexander McCall Smith is having his latest novel published in The Scotsman.
The unusual move follows a literary tradition set by such writers as Dickens and Thackery, by appearing five days a week for six months in 850-word installments.

The author of a book chronicling the first English language newspaper in Wales has returned to the city on a promotional visit for The Cambrian, which features more than 50 images and a compilation of more than 600 extracts from the newspaper of the same name.

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