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Attempt to gag sub's charity raised in Parliament

A refusal to allow a charity membership to the Government-funded Anti-Bullying Alliance has been criticised in Parliament. Yorkshire Evening Post sub-editor Liz founded the charity Bullying Online with her son John in 1999 and it has since won several awards.

Website poem helps deliver anti-bullying message

A poem from the charity website Bullying Online, set up by Yorkshire Evening Post journalist Liz Carnell, has been chosen to launch the DfES’s first Anti-Bullying Week. The poem ‘I am’ is to be featured on TV, in the cinema,

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Motoring journalist Ross Finlay, (67), has died after suffering a heart attack at the wheel of his car.Ross, from Helensburgh, was a contributor to the Herald’s motoring section and a freelance journalist. Two charities have received a cash Christmas gift

Media is giving young people a 'bad press'

Media coverage of young people is “overwhelming negative”, according to a new report. Young People Now magazine claims that wall-to-wall coverage of teenage gangs and violence could give a whole generation a bad name, and has launched a campaign to

Rachael Campey resigns as editor of Yorkshire Post

Rachael Campey has quit as editor of the Yorkshire Post, after 18 months in the role. She is not serving notice and her deputy Duncan Hamilton is acting editor. Staff were told yesterday afternoon in a statement from the newspaper’s

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The South Wales Evening Post won the right to name a teenager who murdered a 76-year-old woman after its reporter David O’Callaghan wrote a letter to Mr Justice Pitchford at Swansea Crown Court.The letter said the section 39 order which

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A letter published in the Halifax Evening Courier more than 140 years ago has been used as the basis of a new novel which denies that Emily Bronte was the author of Wuthering Heights and that instead it was her

Post's sports editor steps down after 30 years

Yorkshire Post journalist Bill Bridge has decided to step down from his role as sport editor after almost 30 years. The move means he can use his vast experience purely in a writing capacity in a new roving role as

MBEs for serving regional newspaper staff

Chichester Observer boss Keith Newbery (right) is now an MBE. He was awarded the honour for services to journalism. He has spent his entire working life in journalism, beginning as a junior reporter on the now defunct Isle of Wight

Two sides to meet in Yorkshire Post dispute

Yorkshire Post editorial staff are set to meet with the management after passing a vote of “no confidence” in their editor, Rachael Campey. The vote took place at an NUJ meeting convened after the redundancy of women’s editor Jill Armstrong

Editor installed at Yorkshire title

Mark Bradley has been appointed editor of the Wakefield Express. He was officially installed in the post on Monday, and had been acting editor at the Yorkshire title since Ed Asquith left to edit the Scarborough Evening News in June

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Leicester Mercury managing director Tony Hill has joined an international think-tank looking at the future of newspapers and advertising.Hill will link up with newspaper executives from several countries as part of the World Association of Newspapers’ two-year project. He said:

Grant boost for sub's charity website

Yorkshire Evening Post sub-editor Liz Carnell is celebrating a £10,000 government grant for her charity Bullying Online. The money will be used to pay running costs for the charity at www.bullying.co.uk which is gearing itself up for the new school

Award boost for sub's charity work

Bullying Online, the charity run by Yorkshire Evening Post sub editor Liz Carnell, has scooped another major award. The anti-bullying children’s charity won the community and voluntary section of the Yorkshire and Humber regional final of the E-Commerce Awards 2003.

National award for sub's anti-bullying site

Bullying Online, the charity founded and run by Yorkshire Evening Post sub editor Liz Carnell, which helps parents and pupils deal with school bullying, has won a national award. It is the winner of the Digital Inclusion category, sponsored by

Website editor is special guest

Yorkshire Evening Post sub-editor Liz Carnell was a guest at a Government reception. The event marked the launch of the 2003 National E-Commerce Awards in which the Harrogate charity Bullying Online, of which she’s the founder and director, was a