The first National Council for the Training of Journalists’ Further Education forum will be on Friday February 2, at the City of Wolverhampton College.
The new forum is for heads of journalism and course leaders from NCTJ accredited journalism courses in further education. It provides an opportunity to discuss the distinctiveness of FE journalism provision, how to get good results and the issues of delivering vocational skills training.

sportsjournalists.co.uk, the website of the Sports Journalists’ Association, has registered its 1,000,000th hit, less than six months after the site’s re-launch.
The website reports how this benchmark figure follows a record month for site traffic in December. With the site carrying news and pictures from the SJA Sports Awards, and then the launch of the annual SJA Sports Journalism Awards, the website was visited by an average of nearly 1,000 viewers every day throughout the month.

The Lancashire Telegraph has been praised after new figures revealed that our Turn It Off fire safety campaign has been a huge success.
Chief fire officer Peter Holland said the paper had made an "important" impact on home safety by helping to tackle ignorance of blaze risks.

A press-led campaign to ban HGVs from Bath’s London Road could come to fruition shortly after a council ruling to earmark £300,000 for a scheme to discourage use of the short cut.
The long-running Bath Chronicle campaign could result in a complete ban and diversions to the by-pass.

The York Press is being hailed for dealing with a potentially hazardous water problem in the council flat of a city pensioner.
An 81-year-old man was worried that water streaming down his wall was a danger to the electricity supply. He contacted The Press as a last resort and after an eight-week wait, work was finished within 24 hours.

The Grantham Journal has launched a photo competition offering Pentax SLR digital cameras as the top prizes.
The brief is to capture what makes Grantham a unique and personal place, and more details can be found at the paper’s website.