The Irish News is inviting readers to suggest the new emblem for the newly-named Police Service of Northern Ireland.
It ran the feature after being approached by the policing board to help out and members of a police working committee will take into account suggestions that come through the newspaper.

The young winner of the Portsmouth News We Can Do It Spirit of Youth Award has been asked to switch on the Christmas lights on board HMS Warrior as part of his prize.
Down’s Syndrome sufferer Mark Taylor won through in the community campaign.
Editor Mike Gilson said: “There’s always plenty of bad news to report in the paper but the We Can Do It campaign highlights all the good work which goes on in our communities too.”

Wirral police have joined The Globe in a new initiative to crack down on crime.
After the success of the Globe’s Car Watch campaign last year, officers have decided to run a Wirral Beat column of weekly news from the local force.

Holly’s Fight For Justice has been backed by more than 200 readers who have this month sent letters of support in to the Croydon Guardian after the teenager’s death as she crossed the road in February.
The 15-year-old was in collision with a car and the letters call for a pelican crossing for St Peter’s Road.

The Belfast Telegraph is launching an initiative to help schoolchildren in its catchment area learn more about the world around them.
Thousands of copies of the Telegraph are being delivered free to classrooms in the region as part of the paper’s Reading Week Bonanza.
They will be used in conjunction with activity packs to help improve the children’s writing skills and understand more about world events.

The Evening Mail’s Bill Myers has been signing copies of his new book of bygones, Memory Lane Barrow after it hit bookshops earlier this month.
It uses the vast picture archive of the North West Evening Mail with text drawn from original and historic articles in the North Western Daily Mail and the Barrow News.

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