Police seized a haul of dangerous video recorders, TVs and camcorders after an appeal in the Carmarthen Journal prompted two readers to supply information to the police.
Officers pounced on a man trying to sell the goods, many of which had parts missing or were a fire hazard, from the back of a car.

More than 200 foreign coins were thrown into collection buckets during the Barnstaple Carnival – and the haul has been handed to the North Devon Journal’s Coin It appeal, to build a hospice.
The foreign currency is normally thrown away but was handed over for a good cause when the bank agreed to take them.

Northcliffe newspaper executives enjoyed a taste of life in the fast lane when they enjoyed a day of go-kart racing and test-driving a range of luxury new vehicles.
The event was laid on at Portishead by Bristol car firm Tuckers, which has won the contract for the Northcliffe company car fleet.

One of the glamorous Argus Girls who used to promote the paper and collect money for charity in the late 1960s is putting her good looks to good use once again – by helping market the newspaper’s old building.
Sherry Royse is the public face of a firm that’s selling 61 luxury flats at the old North Road complex in Brighton.

Thirty years working in the newspaper industry have been celebrated by an advertising supervisor who received a long service award at Aberdeen Journals, which publishes the Evening Express and Press & Journal.
Bryan Dunbar, who has worked for both papers, is now business development supervisor.

Evening Press readers’ ideas for combating traffic gridlock near York are to be looked into by highways chiefs.
They want to improve matters on the busy A64 which takes traffic from the west into the city. Left-turners and the current road layout mean people are getting trapped in jams.

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