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The Liverpool Echo has launched digital television channel Echo TV.
It is now being broadcast in 100 local Hackney cabs and is expected to reach 435,000 viewers a month.
Programmes include celebrity interviews and entertainment, news on the city’s redevelopment, features on Liverpool’s history and sports news.


Kent Messenger media group chairman Geraldine Allinson has presented an engraved salver to Jonathan Neame, chief executive of Shepherd Neame, as a thank you for the brewery’s continued support for the KM Big Quiz, the county’s biggest wine and wisdom evenings.
The Big Quiz raises around £20,000 each year for good causes, selected by KM editors.


A charity which provides transport for elderly, disabled or isolated people has received £10,000 from the Gannett Foundation, the charitable arm of the American owners of Newsquest.
Tisbus, in Tisbury, has ordered a new purpose-built mini-bus after applying for a grant through Salisbury Newspapers, publishers of the Salisbury Journal and Avon Advertiser.


Two students who are studying Journalism, Film and Media at Cardiff University have bared all for an advertising campaign.
The pair volunteered for the Get It Out For Cardiff scheme, and appear naked on posters and flyers which encourage students to dispose of rubbish properly as they prepare to move out of their rented housing for the summer.


An appeal by the Gloucestershire Gazette, to raise money for a local hospice, has received more than £7,000 in reader donations in three weeks. Do you have a story about the regional press?
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