A press appeal into a court decision to allow a paedophile to remain anonymous on the grounds that publicity might embarrass his family has been put back for lawyers of the offenders’ children to attend court.
The dispute is over a reporting restriction made under section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, prohibiting the publication of the defendant’s name and address to protect the defendant’s children “from abuse and ill-treatment, and being vulnerable, of school age and liable to the risk of social exclusion by their peers, teasing and taunting, harassment, intimidation, bullying and violence” The offender admitted 20 offences of possessing and making child pornography, and the Croydon Guardian, Croydon Advertiser and freelance journalist Bill Bailey are making the appeal.

The former northern editor of The Press Association, Peter Beal, has received his MBE from the Prince of Wales.
Peter, (58), who recently retired after 30 years with the agency, was honoured for services to journalism.
He began his career on the Skyrack Express in Leeds and joined the Burton Daily Mail before moving to the Coventry Evening Telegraph as the paper’s crime reporter. He joined PA as a reporter in London in 1976 before moving to Scotland and then to Manchester as chief northern correspondent.
He specialised in major trials and covered those of Harold Shipman, James Bulger’s killers, the Leeds United footballers and nanny Louise Woodward in America.

Trinity Mirror has announced the £11.8m acquisition of TotallyLegal.com Ltd, the owner of TotallyLegal.com, the UK’s leading online recruitment site for the legal profession, and TotallyFinancial.com, a leading online recruitment site serving the finance sector.

The Journalists’ Charity gave financial assistance to 159 people and provided accommodation for 33 people in its sheltered homes in Dorking last year.
Most of those helped were retired bt a significant number were under the usual retirement age. Find out more about the charity by clicking here

Two charities are celebrating after they successfully applied for Gannett Foundation grants through Salisbury Newspapers.
Community transport group Tisbus will receive £10,000 towards a new minibus, and New Forest Sailability, which gives disabled people the chance to learn to sail, has been given £5,000 to help buy a new pontoon. The funding has come from the charitable arm of Gannett, the American owner of Newsquest.