The Press Association is to change its name to PA Group Limited as it implements its strategy of becoming a “leading international information provider”.
It follows the recent acquisition of worldwide weather forecasting business Meteo Consult and the development of sales operations across Asia. This also builds on the group’s existing international operations which are centred on CNW Group, Canada’s leading news distribution company.

The Burton Mail has reacted to new figures showing an increase in animal cruelty by launching a campaign to stop the worsening problem.
Its Stop Animal Cruelty campaign includes the sale of specially-commissioned ‘Dalmatian’ wristbands to raise cash.

Bristol Evening Post reporter Andrew White has admitted in print that there’s only one pair of shoes for him… a pair of Clarks desert boots.
In an article to mark an exhibition at Weston-super-Mare museum which ended last week, he recalled how he bought his first pair aged 14 as an aspiring ‘mod’ – and is still wearing the style 40 years on.

The Peterborough Evening Telegraph’s Fight the Fear campaign has been launched, on the back of an in-paper survey on crime and the fear of crime.
Readers were quizzed on what crimes they were worried about, whether they had been victims, and what might make them safer. The paper is now working with police, the council and other groups to help tackle crime issues.

Tributes have been paid to journalist Lady Gillian Harmsworth, who died aged 66 after several years of ill-health following a stroke.
She joined the Gloucester Citizen in 1960 and wrote for the Gloucstershire Echo, Gloucester Journal, Cheltenham Chronicle, Western Daily Press, and national newspapers, during her long career.