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‘Sensitive’ parts of a Birmingham City Council document made public after a request from the Birmingham Post have been censored by council lawyers.
The report, on the feasibility of a £1bn redevelopment of Paradise Circus, was made public – apart from the details thought commercially sensitive, which the council thought it would not be in the public interest to release.


Newspaper society president Stephen Parker has hosted a lunch for its former marketing committee chairman Kevin Beatty.
Regional press publishers and members of the marketing committee were there to thank Kevin for his work in the role. He stood down from the post when he was appointed managing director of Associated Newspapers, a move from his previous job as MD at Northcliffe Newspapers.


The Board of The MediaWise Trust has been expanded to includes some familiar media figures who will “add breadth and depth” to the group’s promotion of journalism ethics.
The new Trustees include: Glenn Del Medico, former head of programme legal advice at the BBC; Nicholas Jones, former BBC political correspondent; Stephen Jukes, head of the Media School at Bournemouth University and former head of global news at Reuters and Jim Latham, secretary of the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.


Visiting journalists are to be allowed to join the accredited Westminster-based lobby journalists in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in the run-up to the general election.
Tight security was imposed following the flour-bombing of the front bench by protesters last year.


Journalist Celia Andrew didn’t have to go far to find the characters for her new book… as she had come across the drunken clergyman, the elderly lady who loaned her a false leg and the man who tried to throw someone down a well during her real–life time as a vicar’s wife.
Celia, who edits the Bath and Wells Diocesan newspaper Grapevine, has called her book Cinderella and the Three Wise Men (or How to be a Vicar’s Wife Without Really Crying).