Historian and journalist Ronald Crispin has died, aged 88.
He joined the Western Morning News on leaving school, and he Plymouth Evening Herald in 1934 as an apprentice staff reporter, becoming assistant editor of the WMN between 1950 and 1971. He contributed a weekly column to the Evening Herald from 1990 until 1994. He published several historical books, including Plymouth - A New History.

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Trinity Mirror-run recruitment site www.scotcareers.co.uk is growing in popularity, with latest data showing 54,787 unique users and almost 1m page impressions for October.
With an average job count currently close to 3,000, more than 1,000 new jobs appear on the site every week.

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An internationally known journalist who began his career at the Kent Messenger Group, before moving to Fleet Street, has died.
Roger T Hill was 69 and worked for the Daily and Sunday Express, Reuters and the BBC.

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Response to the new Leicestershire and Rutland Life magazine has been so encouraging that its publishers, The Leicester Mercury, are pushing ahead with a full ABC audit.

Designed with the look, content and feel of a national title, the top quality 132-page monthly has steadily grown its advertising base since its launch in July, and is also gaining a loyal band of subscribers.

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A former editor of the Milton Keynes Gazette, John Baker, has died at the age of 69.
His career in journalism included working in Hemel Hempstead, Luton and finally Milton Keynes, where he rose to the position of editor. He died peacefully at home.

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