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Newsquest’s American parent company Gannett has said its second-quarter profits success has been helped by the UK subsidary’s operations.
Stronger advertising revenue at Newsquest, which publishes more than 300 titles, including 17 dailies, and atotal weekly circulation/ distribution of 10.8m copies, helped the figures.


Brentwood Gazette features editor Josie Stephenson stumbled across a long-lost painting while on holiday on a remote Russian island.
The unreliable Russian postal service had ensured that the painting, commissioned three years ago by a Brentwood customer, had never been delivered – until Josie stepped up to act as courier in what turned out to be a coincidence of a lifetime.


Archant Life, part of media group Archant, has announced three senior appointments for some of its county magazine titles.
Publisher Glenn Mabey will look after Essex Life, Hertfordshire Life and Cambridgeshire Life, and joins from Trinity Publications. Anita Barker has been promoted to the position of publisher of Devon Life and Julian Rees, Devon Life’s publishing manager, has been appointed to become operations manager.


Coventry City Council has appointed journalist Fran Collingham as communications and media relations manager. Ms Collingham, (42), will take up the post in September after working out her notice at Birmingham City Council where she is currently second-in-command of communications.


Des Hudson, the former publishing chief executive of SMG whose £500,000 transaction bonus caused significant protest at its most recent annual meeting, has been appointed as chief executive of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
The accountancy body has 300,000 members and students in 160 countries. His previous career includes criminal law, building societies, and newspapers.


A Midlands tycoon has appointed a PR advisor who won’t talk to the local newspaper about his boss.
Iain Macauley, who works for John Caudwell, is holding back on information because The Sentinel and Sentinel Sunday are refusing to meet his demands on the use of pictures and headlines in articles relating to Caudwell.


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