Plans for the future organisation of Northcliffe Newspapers are set for a decision by owners Daily Mail and General Trust, which put the regional business up for bids but then decided not to sell.
An announcement will be made after March 15.

Former Glasgow and Aberdeen journalist Alan Wiseman has died, aged 49. He had been in poor health for some time.
He graduated in English from Aberdeen University before beginning his career at the Banffshire Advertiser in 1980. He went on to work at the Evening Express in Aberdeen as a features and sports sub, before subbing for daily papers in Glasgow.

East Yorkshire mums have been quick to support the Hull and East Riding Mail's campaign to save the Jubilee Birth Centre at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham.
The award-winning centre is under a possible closure threat as a review is to take place into its facilities and the way it works.

Evening Post reporter Alistair Harris tried out his circus skills when the Moscow State Circus visited Nottingham.
He tried his hand – rather foot – on the highwire, became the strongman's weight to lift and even had a go at juggling with two graceful gymnasts.

An award to reward sensitive and accurate reporting on urinary incontinence is up for grabs through the Embrace Award 2006. It is open to journalists from print, broadcast and online media and is for work published in the year up until May 31.
Entries close on June 1. More details can be obtained through the Embrace website.

A journalism student who paid £1,000 to take her first steps to becoming a foreign correspondent says she’d recommend the course to other trainees.
Louise Steggals, from the University of Central Lancashire, spent ten days in Prague on the Transitions Online Foreign Correspondents’ Training Course, where she and 20 other trainees met journalists including Edward Lucas from the Economist and Brian Whitmore from the Boston Globe.