Belfast Telegraph journalist Mary Fitzgerald has won a fellowship which will take her to the Washington Post for three months this summer.
Mary, who has been at the Telegraph almost three years after completing a postgraduate journalism course at the University of Ulster, was selected for the Laurence Stern Fellowship.

The Flying Scotsman steam engine has been saved for the nation thanks to a last minute move by heritage chiefs – and helped by the generosity of Yorkshire Post readers.
More than £70,000 was donated by Yorkshire Post readers, which was added to a £1.8m National Heritage Memorial Fund donation and cash from Sir Richard Branson and the National Railway Museum to bring the engine “home” to Yorkshire.

The Shields Gazette’s campaign to honour a murdered South Shields military policeman and his five dead colleagues has been brought to the attention of The Queen.
The local Conservative Association president, George Smith, feels the six should receive posthumous medals for their work in Iraq. They were killed in Majar al-Kabir in June.

A doorstep recycling scheme has started work again thanks to the Halifax Evening Courier, which has raised almost £50,000 to help clear debts and cover running costs for the community-funded project.
European Social Fund cash has added to the total, allowing Kerbside (Calderdale) to start collecting rubbish from 5,000 homes.

The Evesham Journal has helped a cat re-homing service celebrate its 15th year – by helping find homes for a record number of cats.
An appeal in the newspaper resulted in all 21 unwanted or stray cats featured being found a new home, as well as a further 13 who were not highlighted.

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