by holdthefrontpage staff
A survey of over 700 students by Monster.co.uk showed that the majority will be seeking employment in the media industry - with 19.3 per cent of the votes.
Other popular professions in the poll, conducted in conjunction with the launch of a new version of the classic MB Games board game, Game of Life, included the arts (12.5 per cent), science and technology (11.3 per cent), marketing (11 per cent) and IT (11 per cent).
A Gloucestershire floods special supplement has raked in more than £38,000 for the Gloucestershire Flood Appeal Fund.
The 48-page supplement, put together by Gloucestershire Echo and Citizen staff, was so popular that it sold out twice.
The Press Association has completed its switchover to a new digital distribution network for the newswire, marking the end of an era in satellite delivery.
Following the transition to PA Mediadirect, the satellite delivery system has been switched off after more than 17 years in service.
A reader of the Keighley News complained in a letter to the editor that the Sainsbury's store in town refused to cut a whole cucumber in half for her 85-year-old mother. The store had run out of half cucumbers but said it couldn't give a large one the chop on health and safety grounds.
A ballot was instantly set up on the Keighley News website, and after a week, the voting was two to one in favour of Sainsbury's.
Senior reporter Jess Bauldry, (27), has started work at The Argus in Brighton, moving from The Mid Sussex Times, where she reported on Haywards Heath for two years.
She completed her NCTJ at East Surrey College, Redhill, in June 2005 and passed her senior NCE exams in March this year.
Bath Chronicle editor Sam Holliday and the paper’s commercial director Sarah Irvine are to host a business breakfast to talk about their plans to create a new-look weekly paper, to replace the daily version.
Sam said: “I think that will be the perfect forum to tell our friends and colleagues in the business community about why we have decided to make this radical change – and to look ahead to what should be a bright and exciting future for the Chronicle.”