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Tom Ovenden has joined Newsquest (Essex) as regional finance director.
The 33-year-old was previously finance director of Fowles Auction Group, Australasia’s largest automotive auctioneer, based in Melbourne, Australia, before he returned to the UK in the Summer.


Former Eastbourne Gazette and Herald journalist John Woodford has died, aged 78, after losing a battle with cancer.
After a brief spell in the RAF in Berlin he joined Beckett Newspapers at the age of 14 and had a career spanning 44 years at the company.
During that time he worked as advertisement manager and then joined the editorial team as business editor.


Former Norwich Evening News editor Bob Crawley has been appointed managing director of contract magazine publishing business Archant Dialogue.
He succeeds Chris Rainer, who has retired.
Bob has previously worked for the Wisbech Standard, and was editor of the Peterborough Evening Telegraph and Norwich Evening News before overseeing the launch of the award-winning EDP24 and Pink ‘Un websites and then moving to Archant Specialist.


Newcastle Brown Ale and the Evening Chronicle have joined forces in an innovative promotional campaign.
Newcastle Brown Ale is sponsoring the paper’s sports pages from match reports through to readers’ text messages, and has adopted part of the Trinity Mirror evening’s marketing campaign – converting the Born here, Bred here, Read here tagline to Born here, Brewed here, Enjoyed everywhere.
The five-month campaign includes advertising strips at the bottom of each sports page, which contain sporting blunders by famous sportsmen, and Newcastle Brown Ale bottle tops on reporter’s bylines.