Retired Ripley and Heanor News assistant editor Carol Gibbs was introduced to the Prime Minister during a visit to Downing Street organised by her local MP.
After the evening reception for 180 guests from 60 constituencies, she said: "The Prime Minister was very relaxed… Cherie was charming and very easy to talk to."

The Tower Hamlets Recorder proved a help to elderly resident Minnie Hull, who brandished it to scare off a doorstep trickster.
The 82-year-old tackled the bogus water worker minutes after reading an article in the paper warning vulnerable people to be on their guard.

Western Morning News photographer Richard Austin captured an unusual hunting picture that was snapped up by several of the nationals.
While reporting with Martin Hesp on the Devon and Somerset Staghounds hunt, he was in the right place at the right time to drop the shutter at the exact moment when whipper-in John Stone was knocked from his mount by a leaping stag, which was trying to cross the road at the time.

The Guardian Angels appeal in the South London Guardian has smashed its £50,000 target in just nine months.
The initiative will pay for a nurse counsellor and home visiting service for a local hospice.

Readers of the Eastern Daily Press are backing the newspaper's stance on fighting to reopen Wells Hospital.
Some 2,000 people have signed petitions calling on the local health trust to reopen the hospital while a report considering its options for the future is produced.