by holdthefrontpage staff
A Bristol Evening Post team took part in the annual Bristol to London charity bike ride to raise money Action Medical Research’s Touching Tiny Lives campaign.
Political editor Ian Onions, investigations reporter Simon Peevers, assistant news editor Marc Cooper and news reporter Rupert Janisch were among the riders for the 112-mile event.
The Croydon Guardian has won a battle to get new road signs installed at a junction that has trapped at least 30 drivers a day for fines when they take the wrong road.
Dozens of angry motorists complained to the paper about the Poplar Walk/London Road junction, where the local authority has now installed clearer signs.
Guardian Media Group has appointed Simon Waldman group director of digital strategy and development.
He will help create a coherent digital strategy across all the group’s media divisions, and will work closely with finance director Nick Castro and new GMG chief executive Carolyn McCall in the group’s broader strategic development.
The mayor of Chesterfield’s twin town, Tsumeb, in Namibia, paid a visit to the Derbyshire Times office as part of an exchange programme.
Engel Nawatiseb had a particular interest in the paper, as he works freelance for Namibia’s national newspaper when he’s not wearing the civic chains of office.
Veteran news man Chris Montcrieff has spent more than 50 years in journalism, but only when he edited his local church magazine did he attract his first hate mail from readers!
He told The Telegraph: “No sooner was my first issue available to the congregation than poisonous missives were fluttering through my letterbox.”