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The Leamington Courier looks set to have to wait until at least September to name a 15-year-old currently serving a custodial sentence for breaching the conditions of his anti-social behaviour order.
A reporter from the paper this week handed a letter to magistrates at an administrative hearing, calling for the lifting of a naming ban on the boy, but it will now have to wait until the next full hearing in September.
Magistrates had ordered that the boy’s identity be made secret after agreeing that he had been unfairly affected by publicity when he was previously named and pictured in the Courier.


Bristol Evening Post reporter Simon Peevers, former National Union of Journalists president Tim Lezard and Mike Jempson, director of the MediaWise Trust, will be among those on a panel at a public debate organised by The Exiled Journalists’ Network tomorrow.
The debate will look at media representation of refugee and asylum issues and will take place twice, at 3pm and 7pm, at the Pierian Centre, 27 Portland Square, St Pauls.
The free event will last about two hours and is a part of Bristol’s National Refugee Week.