The Newspaper Qualifications Council has teamed up with the Press Association to launch the London Academy - day release training for sub editors and reporters.
The launch presents a new programme of day release training courses run by the Editorial Centre on behalf of the Newspaper Qualifications Council and part funded by the Learning and Skills Council. There are programmes for reporters, which lead to a diploma in sub-editing and the National Diploma in Newspaper Journalism, and for reporters, leading to the Level 4 NVQ in Newspaper Journalism (Writing) and the National Diploma.

An MP is planning to raise the News Shopper’s Daylight Saving Campaign in the House of Commons, claiming the proposed change is necessary to safeguard our environment and improve everyone’s quality of life.
The paper claims changing the clocks by two hours would save lives and save energy, and editor Andrew Parkes said: “I have received a huge pile of letters from readers backing us in our fight to get double daylight saving accepted, and I am convinced the majority of people want change.”

Tessa Jowell, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, was the guest at a Newspaper Society presidential lunch.
The event was hosted by NS president Sir Nicholas Hewitt and attended by a number of regional press publishers. Issues discussed ranged from the BBC Charter Review to local government advertising, television without frontiers, libraries’ online content, and newspaper distribution/OFT issues.

Courier Journal newspapers in Oxford has highlighted how a cancer sufferer had been denied a particular drug treatment from the NHS that might save his life. As a result of the coverage fund-raisers were able to halt their efforts - because the local health authority changed its mind and prescribed him the drugs.

The 2006 Oxford Media Convention focused on the role of public service broadcasting and media regulation in a digital age. The Convention brought together strategists from all the major media players with the key experts from government and academia.
The one day conference featured keynotes from Tessa Jowell MP, Andy Duncan, chief executive at Channel 4 and Simon Sutton, president of HBO International. Other speakers included Dawn Airey from Sky, Richard Sambrook of the BBC, Ofcom’s Ed Richards, Tim Gardam from Oxford University and Emily Bell of Guardian Unlimited.