For the second year running a successful graduate from the Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism course at the University of Central Lancashire has been accepted as a trainee sub-editor on a scheme run jointly by the Press Association and the Daily Mail.

Last year Joel Cooper beat 900 applicants to gain one of the six places. This year Greg Tindall, who was awarded his diploma in July, has won through some similarly stiff opposition.

Greg, (22), from Upton-by-Chester in Cheshire, gained a diploma with merit at the university to follow up an unusual entrance into the industry by being a reporter on Ulaan Baatar's Tseruuleg newspaper, the biggest-selling weekly national in Mongolia.

Apart from Greg, the course is approaching a near 100 per cent jobs record for students who finished their studies in June.

Newspapers and news organisations the students have joined include the Daily Express, Press Association, Lancashire Evening Post, Lancashire Evening Telegraph, Stoke Sentinel and Leicester Mercury.

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