Greenock Telegraph editor Martin Biddle is set to confront the First Minister about proposed cuts for Inverclyde hospitals.
The face-to-face meeting follows a Telegraph-backed protest demonstration in Greenock when around 4,500 people took to the streets.

Press Ahead is to sponsor the Marketing categories of the Newspaper Society's Advertising, Marketing & Digital Media Awards 2004.
The company provides strategic project management services to publishers as well as a stream of new revenue generating/cost saving ideas.

Yorkshire TV weather presenter Debbie Lindley is branching out into the newspaper industry - by penning a column for the Dewsbury Reporter while she's off work on maternity leave.
She will keep readers up-to-date on the final weeks of her pregnancy, and reveal more on the rollercoaster of joy and sadness she's experienced during the past eight months.

New information in a letter sent to the Braintree and Witham Times in Essex has changed the course of a police inquiry into the death of a teenager 20 years ago.
At the time it was believed burglars raiding a nearby house has witnessed the motorbike crash death - but the letter, a copy of which was also sent to police - has led detectives to believe the burglars may actually have been responsible for the death.

The Yorkshire Evening Post Give the Kids a Hospital campaign has won praise from MPs, doctors and pressure groups.
The plea for a new hospital in Leeds looks like becoming a reality and supporters have now pledged to ensure the plans come to fruition.

An investigation by the Cambridge Evening News has found visitors to local beauty spots are leaving valuables on display in their cars - an open invitation to thieves.
Despite police warnings of criminals operating in car parks, the paper's photographers snapped lots of mobile phones, bags, handbags and other items on seats and in the footwells.

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