The Liverpool Echo has failed in an attempt to get a court to relax reporting restrictions on a 14-year-old girl for the safety of the community.
The girl held a classroom assistant at gunpoint, but magistrates claimed they could not identify her as she was not a persistent offender.
The girl has denied having an imitation firearm – a BB gun – with intent to make another fear violence but was found guilty and will be sentenced later this month.

A forty-acre wasteland that has lain derelict for 20 years is to become an area of focus for the Central Somerset Gazette’s Move on Morlands campaign.
The newspaper wants the site, close to Glastonbury, to undergo a transformation hinted at when it was purchased by the regional development agency for £4.1m in 2001.

The Sheffield Star’s parent company Johnston Press has paid up the last £625 to help an RSPCA appeal reach its first £100,000.
The Star is backing the £1m Magic Million Appeal, which aims to raise enough cash for a new state-of-the-art animal shelter.

The Periodical Publishers Association is hosting a one-day seminar, The Future for Specialist Publishers: Alternative Routes to Market.
The agenda for the event, on February 15, will take in digital editions and distribution through non-traditional retail outlets. It will be at the Association’s offices on Kingsway, London WC2.

A campaign by residents for safety improvements on a hazardous stretch of road is being backed by the Sentinel.
The A53 in Staffordshire has claimed four lives in the past year and is ranked by the AA as the 21st most dangerous in the country.