Terry Holder has been appointed chairman of Guernsey Press Co.
He takes over from John Averty, chief executive of the Guiton Group, owner of the Guernsey Press and Jersey Evening Post. Terry will also act as publisher of the Guernsey Press, working alongside the management team in an advisory and consultative role.
John Averty has been appointed publisher of the Jersey Evening Post, and will continue as its chairman.

Amy Bould, (32), is the new business editor at the Shropshire Star, moving from the newsdesk, where she was deputy news editor for three years.
She joined the paper in 1996 at the Ketley head office and became chief reporter in 1998.

A photographer hailed as the first to take aerial shots of north-east Scotland has died, aged 82.
Jack Cryle enjoyed a 40-year career at Aberdeen Journals, publisher of the Evening Express and Press & Journal, joining as a trainee aged 22.

A Rolls-Royce first owned by Blackburn newspaper tycoon Viscount Kemsley is expected to fetch more than £100,000 after being bought at auction for an undisclosed sum. The vehicle was expected to be sold on.
It was first bought for £5,000 in 1950, when such a sum was 13 times the average annual wage, by the former owner of the Northern Daily Telegraph, the forerunner of the Lancashire Telegraph.

Former Birmingham Post & Mail photographer Angela Hill has died aged 66.
She took up photography after a promising show jumping career was cut short by injury, and went on to enjoy a career at the Post & Mail and then the Express & Star in Wolverhampton, before setting up the photography workshop and study centre The Photographers’ Place in the Peak District.

Pippa Woolnough is having to hang around before making a charity parachute jump.
The East Grimstead Observer reporter’s skydive was postponed because of low cloud.