Regional press man Graham Andrews has retired at 63 after a lifetime in the business.
He started his career in 1959 on the Bideford gazette, and later working at the Torquay Times group and the Coventry Evening Telegraph and retired from the North Devon Journal as a sub-editor. He had in the past been involved in general news, features and sport, and will continue to pen a gardening column.

Reporter Jon Austin, of the Evening Echo bought a sofa and armchair to expose how potentially lethal furniture was being sold in Basildon.
He made the purchase after suspecting that a local shop was selling suites which failed to comply with fire regulations, despite displaying safety labels. In the four-part investigation he had it independently tested – and it quickly turned into a fireball within three minutes, giving off poisonous fumes.

New Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell is to be the guest speaker at the Scottish Press Fund lunch, as the charity continues to publicise its new name, The Journalists’ Charity.
The event, on May 19, will be at the Radisson hotel in Glasgow.

The literary editor of Scotland On Sunday, Andrew Crumey, has won an award for his own fiction writing.
His novel about quantum physics, telepathy and a young boy growing up in Scotland is still being written, and he won the £60,000 Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award for the first 10,000 words of Sputnik Caledonia.

A postgraduate student from Cardiff University is on her way to New Orleans after being awarded a prestigious writing prize.
Claire Potter, who is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing, won a £500 bursary – the Future Focus on the Arts Award for New Welsh Writing – from Cardiff Council.