The Liverpool Echo is calling for the local authority to work towards declaring Tuesday August 28 a local bank holiday to celebrate the city’s 800th anniversary.
Editor Alastair Machray said: “August Bank Holiday weekend is already one of the biggest events on the city’s calendar with the Mathew Street Festival. But a Liverpool Day would allow people to be involved in something special, something most of us will never have the chance to experience again.”

The BA (Hons) Journalism course at the University of Central Lancashire has once again been given the seal of approval by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.
The three year accreditation is valued in the industry because it shows the course provides the practical relevant training necessary to work in broadcast journalism.

Tony Jenkins, former chief photographer at the Nuneaton Evening Tribune, has died aged 75.
He left the paper in the mid-1960s to set up his own photographic business, and had suffered a short illness before his death.

Corby Council is putting its full backing behind a campaign from the Northants Evening Telegraph to tackle social ills such as flytipping and graffiti.
The newspaper launched its Seven Social Sins campaign in January aimed at solving these problems as well as dog fouling, illegal parking, litter, anti-social behaviour, potholes, abandoned cats and vandalism.

University of Westminster student, Greece-born Yannis Kontos, has won another award to go with his most recent of first prize, Contemporary Issues, it this year’s World Press Photo Awards.
The new award, first prize International Pictures of the Year 2006, (magazine feature picture for ‘Life as an Amputee’) brings the number of awards he’s won so far to 15.