A special tribute to a unique overhead electric railway has been produced by staff at the Liverpool Echo.
The publication The Dockers’ Umbrella takes a look at a time when the docks were the economic hub to the country and is filled with anecdotes from the people who worked on it and used it to travel.
Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith has congratulated the Southend Evening Echo for its campaign to safeguard threatened south Essex cancer services – and pledged his support to the cause.
At an annual Conservative Association dinner he told guests the Government was “completely wrong” to look at making changes based on a minimum catchment population.
A Norwich Evening News side was one of the teams to enter a traditional pancake race in the city last week.
Marketing manager Sam Spurdens, sales manager Simon Tomlinson, marketing assistant and football writer Sophie Harrison and events co-ordinator/football writer David Helsdon went into battle against Anglia TV and BBC Radio Norfolk.
A campaign from the Bath Chronicle to encourage more people to carry organ donor cards is set to receive national coverage.
The initiative, to encourage thousands of readers across Wiltshire and Somerset to think about becoming a donor, is being covered by the National Kidney Federation’s Kidney Life magazine.
Newlywed Joan Collins is to be a guest at a forthcoming Yorkshire Post literary luncheon.
She will be at the Leeds event on the back of her steamy new novel Star Quality, at the Queen’s Hotel on March 13.
People who want to know what Mid-Anglia was like in 1952 – the year The Queen came to the throne – can take a look at the Cambridge Evening News to find out.
The town’s central library has placed a bound copy of the News on display and will open the archive every day at the same date from 50 years ago until the Jubilee Bank Holiday in June.
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