Archant Norfolk is opening a new city centre office in Norwich.
Most of the staff from the company’s main reception at Prospect House will move to the new unit, part of the city’s Forum complex.

The Gloucestershire Echo has scored a campaign victory, helping to secure three new cancer scanners for a local hospital.
The newspaper revealed that two breast cancer scanners in the area were broken, leaving just one in working order – and that a local cancer charity had £9m in the bank, ready to buy three new scanners. The paper’s story secured the purchase.

The Shields Gazette has launched a campaign to win bravery awards for six Redcaps who were killed in Iraq two months after the war.
The Debt of Honour campaign is calling on readers to sign a petition which will then be handed to defence chiefs.

Rowland Hobson, chief photographer at the Peterborough Evening Telegraph, was on hand to judge a photography competition held by The Peterborough Photographic Society.
Members exhibited their pictures at the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery in January and the best of the bunch received awards, which Rowland also helped to present.

The South Wales Argus has criticised magistrates at Cwmbran Youth Court after it failed in a bid to name a 16-year-old tearaway.
In a double-page spread ‘Why do our courts protect young thugs?’ the newspaper highlighted the “inconsistences” that it says occur in the courts, and said it had previously been allowed to name the same boy when he was made the subject of an anti-social behaviour order.

Females guest are to be allowed to attend the Scottish Football Writers’ Association annual dinner for the first time this May.
Members voted in favour of the move at a meeting earlier this month. Previously only its five women members were allowed to attend the dinner, and neither they or their male counterparts could invite females guests.

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