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Regional press staff fly to Middle East

Six regional newspapers have sent reporters to the Middle East to cover the expected conflict in Iraq. Several military units requested that their local newspaper should be positioned with them in any forthcoming conflict, including The Portsmouth News, and its

Regional newspapers' war correspondents prepare to fly

Nine editorial staff from the regional press will travel to the Gulf with the Ministry of Defence in the event of war breaking out with Iraq. The seven reporters and two photographers would travel as war correspondents and have been

Former news editor dies at 65

Former Gloucestershire Echo news editor John Flint has died. He was 65. He joined the Echo after 25 years working for the Daily Mirror, and began his career in 1956 as a trainee reporter on the Wythenshaw Recorder. In 1958

Paper's survey shows two thirds of kids have seen a gun

A survey by the Manchester Evening News has found that two out of every three children in the city have seen a gun in real life. The newspaper interviewed 650 young people aged between 11 and 16 in the Greater

Wider audience in donor plea

The search for a potentially life-saving bone marrow donor for little Shannon Bradshaw has gone online thanks to the Manchesteronline website. The seven-year-old, from Warrington, is fighting for her life in hospital after being diagnosed with aplastic anaemia – bone

Successful "first" for website

ManchesterOnline has seen the launch of what it hopes will be a popular new feature, as it held its first web chat earlier this week. The first guest to be quizzed by an army of ManchesterOnline readers was Manchester Evening

Conmen stripped of profits after MEN exposé

Two fraudsters who conned thousands of pounds out of their victims have been stripped of their profits following an undercover investigation by the Manchester Evening News. Judge Anthony Hammond ordered the two men to pay back almost £50,000 and praised

NS treasurer role for Ian

Ian Ashcroft, the chief executive of Guardian Media Group’s regional newspapers division, has been elected as the new honorary treasurer of the Newspaper Society. He was selected at the Society’s half-yearly meeting of members and takes over from Sir Ray

MEN steps in to boost Kirsty single

The Manchester Evening News has stepped in to try to help a song dedicated to a terminally-ill girl get to number one. Opera star Russell Watson has recorded a single for Kirsty Howard, who was born with a rare heart

Quake leaves paper's switchboard jammed

The telephone switchboard at the Manchester Evening News was jammed yesterday morning as the second earthquake in a month hit the city. Earthquake experts later confirmed that there had been a series of four tremors due to “a seismic incident”

Newspaper offices evacuated during bomb scare

The offices of the Manchester Evening News had to be evacuated during a bomb scare in the city centre. Staff were told to leave their desks and gather near their Deansgate office at around 2.40pm as the final edition of

Beer today, none tomorrow?

The Manchester Evening News and Manchesteronline are backing a major new campaign to keep Boddingtons brewery jobs in the city. The newspaper says Boddingtons is as Mancunian as Manchester United, Coronation Street and Oasis – and has long-traded on its

Trio plead guilty after being exposed by Evening News

Three conmen have been brought to justice by the Manchester Evening News. A reporter went undercover as a telesales rep to expose their conning of hundreds of thousands of pounds out of people by pretending to run a crime prevention

Former editor takes on cancer role

A former daily newspaper editor from Liverpool has been named as the new boss of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Centre. Mike Unger, (58), was the editor of the Liverpool Daily Post between 1979 and 1982, before moving to the

Evening News records the big event

The Manchester Evening News is producing the official record of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Throughout the games, one of the biggest events to ever hit Manchester, the paper is producing a series of supplements detailing every event and medal. The

Editors look ahead to October date

More top names from national and regional newspapers have joined the list of speakers at the York conference of the Society of Editors in October. Tim Bowdler, president of the Newspaper Society, will give the Society of Editors Lecture at