If you want to know what’s going on around Burton-on-Trent, get a copy of the Burton Mail.
That’s the view of the Football Association, which, following its decision to build a new centre of excellence in the area, has taken out a subscription to the paper.

A radio station’s spoof of the Big Brother contest Big Mother roped in the Derby Evening Telegraph to help with one of its challenges.
The three finalists for the RAM FM venture were asked to write an article for the paper with the prize of two bottles of bubbly the bait.
The winning prose was about bird watching and paddling and was penned by contestant Craig Head.

A father who pleaded for help in learning a few words of Korean so that he could speak at his son’s wedding to a Korean woman had his dreasm answered thanks to readers of the Bradford Telegraph & Argus.
A Korean restaurant owner in Dewsbury was one of several people to step forward after Phil Stancliffe wanted more help than the phrasebook could give.

The South Bucks Star has helped a mum with her dream of setting up a holiday home for children with cancer.
Thanks to the generosity of readers, Elaine Ball has taken on a holiday home on the coast in New Milton, Hants, to give parents and children a break from intensive hospital treatments.

The Internet site for Alpha Newspaper Group has announced its is getting an average of 4,000 “hits” a day from all over the world.
Ulsternet-ni.co.uk is hoping to further improve the site and attract yet more visitors. It provides news from the Strabane Weekly News, Ulster Gazette, Tyrone Courier, Tyrone Constitution, Carrickfergus Advertiser, Larne Gazette, Ballyclare Gazette and County Down Outlook.

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