The Press Association’s education correspondent, Tim Ross, has launched a blog to stimulate debate on key issues in schools and universities.
Tim Ross’s Blackboard features downloadable podcast audio, highlights the important educational topics of the week and is aimed at education professionals, parents and students.

North Wales’s only cricket club for disabled people has received a cash boost thanks to the Evening Leader, working in partnership with Barclays Bank Community Awards.
The club has been granted £500 from the awards fund, which will be used for a variety of projects.

The Sunderland Echo’s battle to stamp out the scourge of air gun crime won a fresh victory when Government ministers vowed to consider a national amnesty on the potentially deadly weapons.
The Home Office agreed to look at a national amnesty after Wearside MP Fraser Kemp raised the case in Parliament.

The longest serving community correspondent for the Cambs Times has retired after serving readers on her patch for almost 53 years.
Now 85, Daisy Peverett began in her role as correspondent for Manea in 1952.

News Shopper in London is giving the readers their chance to “write the news”, inviting them to share their pictures and thoughts in a new section.
The Your Shopper section will put contributors in control of the content, and they are being asked to send in their own reports of whatever local event interests them, by e-mail or text message or by contributing to a blog.

An Exeter Express & Echo petition to ban the unregulated sale of Samurai swords in the wake of a local murder has reached more than 1,500 signatures.