Glasgow Herald chief reporter Lucy Adams has won the Nations and Regions award at Amnesty International’s 16th media awards.
The prize was for her article, Haunted, from The Herald Magazine last July, which looked at how war-torn Liberia was being reconstructed under the continent’s first female leader, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson MP has paid a return visit to his old stamping ground at the Wolverhampton Express & Star, where he spent three months at the paper almost 20 years ago.
Back then, as a young graduate, he was sent into the provinces by The Times to learn his trade as a journalist, and recalled his training days during his recent visit.

A Bristol Evening Post’s reward to help hunt down the brutal attacker of a 79-year-old woman has been doubled to £4,000 by the victim’s family.

Workers from some of the biggest companies in Nottinghamshire got together to run a mile for the Evening Post’s Shape Up Notts campaign.
The tag relay – the Maid Marian Mile – saw the Inland Revenue team cross the finish line first.

A new section to the Derby Evening Telegraph’s website gives the county’s youngsters the chance to write the news.

PA Sport has launched a new service Match Centre, which combines their data feed with essential match information and award-winning ShootLive photography, delivered and updated during matches.
Chief executive Chris Buckley said: "We believe that the Match Centre is the most complete and most compelling online football service on the market."
The Match Centre displays updates of all the major match incidents from the first kick to the last.

PA Photos is to represent Pulse Picture Library’s medical images in the UK and Ireland, in a deal which strengthens the editorial stock collections that PA Photos launched this year.
Pulse specialises in model released contemporary images of UK General Practice and their staff at work, using up-to-date equipment and accurate techniques. The collection also includes a range of medical conditions, specialist clinics, and baby and child development tests, pharmacy and medicines.