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Footage from this year’s Picture Editors’ Awards is to be included in a two-part BBC programme looking at how the Royal family have been portrayed in print over the years.
Capturing The Royals will also include interviews with the nominees for the awards’ Fujifilm Royal Photographer of the Year category.
The first hour-long programme will be shown on BBC2 on Sunday at 8pm, with the second part following on October 22.


A new course from the Lincoln School of Journalism will give young Indian journalists hands-on experience of the British media.
The programme, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth office, features eight weeks at the University of Lincoln, as well as a four-week attachment with a British newspaper and themed visits to established media organisations.


Nottingham Evening Post reporter Chris Birkle tested one of the most punishing rides at the 700-year-old Goose Fair, when he took his seat on the 55m Bomber Mach2, thought to be the world’s fastest travelling ride, giving passengers a 3.4G experience.
He said afterwards: “It felt as though somebody had injected me with pure adrenaline.”


Family, friends and colleagues of the Croydon Guardian leisure editor Chrissie Van Emst, who died in August after a battle with cancer, have raised more than £430 for the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer.


Northcliffe Retail, the retail division of the Northcliffe Newspaper Group, has been named among the “elite class” of the UK’s leading magazine retailers.
The division joins the likes of WHSmith, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer as one of the top eight news groups in the country.
The company consists of 63 owned estate shops throughout the East Midlands and 247 partnership shops across the country.