Pictures of X Factor contestants in concert were sadly lacking from the Aberdeen Evening Express after the programme’s PR company banned snappers from taking pictures of the winner, Shayne Ward.
Fans will apparently have to wait until the show hits Manchester this weekend for Shayne’s “homecoming”, according to an explanatory note in the newspaper.

Journalists and broadcasters are doing an extra hour of unpaid overtime per day, according to the research issued by the TUC in the run up to Work Your Proper Hours Day on Friday. This is the day when the average UK employee who does unpaid hours would start to get paid if they did all the extra work at the start of the year.
Journalists and broadcasters who do unpaid hours told the Government’s 60,000 strong Labour Force Survey that they do an average of 7h 24m unpaid work a week, up an hour from last year’s figure.

The fire bell went off at the Glasgow Newspaper Press Fund press ball at the weekend – but the 400 diners were not alarmed.
They left their seats between dessert and coffee, and calmly filed back in to continue raising some £19,000 for the charity.

The Telegraph & Argus is backing the world’s biggest research study into children’s health.
The lives of more than 10,000 babies born in Bradford will be tracked by medical experts – from their mother’s pregnancy until they are 16. The Born in Bradford study will cost about £3m but has already attracted £1m funding from the Department of Health and the European Commission and a T&A-backed appeal is hoping to raise a further £1m.

The deadline for entries in the BT UK IT Security Journalism Awards is on Friday.
For details on categories and how to enter, click here.