Former Associated Newspapers man Barry Hughes has been appointed finance director of West Wiltshire Housing Society, the area’s biggest landlord.
The group manages more than 5,000 former council houses. He was previously finance director for the Evening Standard and Metro Newspapers.

Former Bristol Evening Post letters editor Robin Lloyd has died, aged 81. He was suffering from cancer.
He joined the Evening Post in 1958 under editor Richard Hawkins after growing up in India.

More than 8,000 shoeboxes of gifts were collected by Romford Recorder readers for the paper’s annual Love in a Box campaign for needy children in the former Eastern Bloc.

Archant Scotland’s Ayrshire Extra has turned an in-paper feature into a best-selling book commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Editor John Matthews has seen Ayrshire’s Wartime Heroes take the No1 spot in Ottakar’s bookshop charts, and the company has now secured sponsorship to produce more copies for charities to sell.

Former Sunday Mirror editor Eve Pollard is among the keynote speakers at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Young Communicator Conference in Bristol on January 27.
More than 150 delegates are expected to attend the event, aimed at new entrants into the PR industry.