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The Press Complaints Commission has thrown out a complaint against the Sentinel and Sentinel Sunday by the PR manager for Caudwell Group chief executive John Caudwell. The newspapers reported how they were accused of a persecution campaign but the Commission

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Entertainer and explorer Pete McCarthy will be one of the speakers at the Bristol Evening Post’s next literary lunch.He is part of a triple bill of top writers and will be joined by romantic novelist Sarah Harrison and Bristol author

Record year for talent contest

A talent competition run by the Hull Daily Mail has raised more than £6,500 for charity. The paper’s Talent Trail 2001 was the most successful to date. All the money raised during the event – £6,572 – will help pay

Good advice from the Echo

A fire-eating magician and juggler who dropped his balls at a talent show took some good advice from a Bournemouth Daily Echo columnist – and ten years later has been crowned Children’s Entertainer of the Year. Tony Carter has moved

Editors change places

Two South Yorkshire editors have swapped jobs. Martin Edmunds has been appointed editor of the Doncaster Advertiser, replacing Linda Waslidge, who has taken over from him at the Mexborough-based South Yorkshire Times. Both titles are owned by Johnston Press’s South

Half way to a million!

A Millennium appeal to build new facilities at a Doncaster hospice has passed the half-million pound mark. Fund-raising events by South Yorkshire Newspapers titles have boosted the total during the year. The appeal was launched in June last year through

Balloons aid hospice fund

Thousands of balloons will give a lift to the biggest fund-raising campaign in a newspaper group’s history. South Yorkshire Newspapers is trying to raise £1m for an extension to a hospice in Doncaster. This week, its flagship title, the Doncaster