The Lord Chancellor will be giving the keynote address at the Newspaper Society/Press Gazette Media Law Conference on Thursday - and his address is sure to kick-start the debate due to follow.
Simon Smith from Schillings, who recently acted for Lord Browne of BP, will be joining Rupert Grey, a leading city barrister specialising in privacy and censorship, on the subject 'How can the public know if the media can’t tell', in a debate hosted by Clive Anderson.
The day will feature presentations on other key media law issues – contempt, data protection, legal developments on internet, Freedom of Information – with a host of top lawyers and legal brains.

The Yorkshire Branch of the Society of Editors is due to meet on Friday, May 18, at the PA offices in Howden, where University of Central Lancashire journalism lecturer Julie Freer will talk about a new book about the regional press and its future.
There will also be a discussion on the future of the Yorkshire branch itself.

The Liverpool Echo is demanding a better deal for thousands of Liverpool fans facing Champions League heartache.
UEFA has given the Reds and AC Milan only 17,000 tickets each for supporters who want to travel to the final in Athens on May 23. But a further 20,000 tickets will be used for corporate purposes in a ground with a capacity of 63,000.

The minister responsible for criminal justice and the courts has backed the Southern Daily Echo's anti-knife campaign.
Harriet Harman said she fully endorsed its campaign to demand an end to the knife violence which brings terror and heartache to communities across Hampshire while visiting courts in Southampton. The age of a person allowed legally to buy a knife will increase from 16 to 18 in October.

The Dursley Gazette has saved one of Thornbury’s most valuable public buildings with an £11,500 cash injection under a community grant scheme operated by the Gazette's parent company, Gannett.
There were real fears for 19th century Cossham Hall, part of the town's Armstrong Hall complex, where John Wesley once preached.

The York Press has launched a campaign Live Now, Drive Later, in a bid to stop youngsters getting behind the wheel of a car.
It was set up after a newspaper delivery driver was killed when the 15-year-old driver of an Audi, and his 15-year-old passenger both also died in the collision.

The Hull Daily Mail has pledged to continue its support for a family it says has been torn apart by bureaucracy.
Deborah Phillips and her six-year-old daughter have been deported, leaving her elderly mother Betty, (79), alone in Cottingham. Immigration officials have rejected appeals and now suggest that the pensioner should emigrate, claining there is “no insurmountable obstacle” to her moving to America.