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Junior school teachers are being offered the chance to take a closer lookat the Lincolnshire Echo as part of an education business partnership forliteracy exams.
They will be able to explore the processes of running a daily newspaper,look at how pupils can develop communication skills and find out aboutpractical starter activities.


Pressure from Evening Chronicle readers has prompted a Newcastleshopkeeper to stop selling fashionable ornamental cats, after it wasrevealed that they were made from rabbit fur.
She asked the public to decide after a protest outside her shop, and ina phone poll, 331 readers out of the 361 who voted said she should not stockthem.


The Evening Telegraph is mounting a bid to save the famous name of theHMS Coventry.
The last city-named vessel has already been decommissioned butbusinesses and local groups are being canvassed in a bid to win enoughsupport to push the Royal Navy to name a seventh HMS Coventry.


An Internet poll in the Hartlepool Mail found that 87 per cent of thosewho took part were against a shake-up of local hospital services.
Plans are afoot to remove cancer surgery and hip and knee replacementsto Stockton but 1,464 said “No” to the idea – which was an attempt to cutwaiting times and improve survival rates – and only 156 people voted “Yes”.


A life-saving scheme to teach youngsters to swim on a £2-a-day crashcourse is being launched by the Burton Mail.
The 18-year Learn to Swim campaign has taught thousands ofchildren to swim in a bid to prevent accidents which claim youngsters’ livesevery year.


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