Dunfirmline Press has reported a jump in full-year profits of 71 per cent, reaching £1.996m, compared with £1.16m a year earlier.
The company publishes six regional newspapers, while its subsidiary, Clyde and Forth Press, owns 14 titles, including the Greenock Telegraph.

Bolton Evening News reporter Robert Johnson got into the spirit of ITV1’s I’m a Celebrity show by getting to grips with an unusual diet for the benefit of his readers.
His stomach-churning menu, mirroring that of the TV castaways’ bushtucker challenge, included barbecue and chilli-flavoured oven-baked worm, giant toasted leaf ants.. and a vodka-flavoured scorpion lollipop.

The National Union of Journalists is to set up a special fund to pay for its political campaigns – but needs official approval from the members in a ballot to be held later this month.
The union says it cannot stay out of the political arena, and needs to set up the fund within the terms of the law.

Newspaper industry exhibition Newstec is to stay in Brighton after the organisers decided against a move to London.
The capital was seen as an option after it was thought more visitors might be attracted – but the Metropole Hotel will remain the venue for the foreseeable future.

Former sports editor of The People, Neville Holtham, who died last week aged 74, began his successful career in the regional press.
Prior to his 26 years at the Sunday newspaper, he worked on evening papers in Newcastle and Nottingham before moving to the national press at the Sporting Chronicle, Daily Herald and Daily Mail, all in Manchester, before moving to London.

Magistrates decided not to ban publication of a defendant’s address after an intervention in court by Scarborough Evening News reporter Richard Harris.
He argued to Scarborough magistrates that justice should be performed in public, and that agreeing to the defendant’s application would have given her a veil of anonymity.

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