David Chipp, the former editor-in-chief of the Press Association, is to celebrate his 80th birthday – surrounded by former colleagues.
Scores of journalists who worked under Chipp at PA’s former headquarters at 85 Fleet Street will be reunited for the special occasion. Chipp was at the helm of the agency from 1969 to 1986.
The reunion and birthday bash takes place in the Johnson Bar of the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street from 6pm on Friday June 15. People who served at PA during the Chipp years are invited to attend.

Staff at the Bucks Free Press made a mockery of an annual council lunch by pulling-up outside with a kebab van in tow.
The stunt took councillors by complete surprise and caused ripples of laughter in the council chamber after sister publication, Midweek, decided on the gag following an article it ran about rising refreshment expenses at Buckinghamshire County Council.
Two Labour councillors, who chose not to eat the lunch in protest, also joined in the fun by posing for photos with photographer Holly Cant.

Vera Day, whose funeral was held on Monday, was the first female journalist at the Luton News, and paved the way for hundreds of other successful journalists.
Vera, whose maiden name was Sharman, worked on the News for seven years until 1936, when she married bank manager Frank Day and moved away.

Long-serving former Aberdeen Evening Express sub-editor Hector McSporran has died, aged 94.
He had worked in newspapers for almost 50 years and spent nearly 20 years with Aberdeen Journals, joining the company in 1958 after spells at the Campbeltown Courier and Glasgow Herald.

The Liverpool Echo has won an award for fair and positive reporting on asylum and refugee issues.
The accolade was announced at the first annual Merseyside Refugee Awards, where the paper was recognised for its coverage of the deportation of Bottle school governor Arif Dar, and for campaigning on behalf of asylum seeker Charlie Happi Kouamaka.