Tickets are on sale now for the Press Ball to be held in Glasgow on February 24 to raise money for The Journalists’ Charity. Tickets for the three-course dinner at the city’s Crowne Plaza hotel are available at £45 each from Margaret Morrison on 0141 302 7005.

Two men were arrested after a photo appeal in the Liverpool Echo of people running riot at railway stations brought a flood of information from readers.
The appeal followed a series of offences across a number of locations.

Former Grimsby Telegraph man Phillip Norton, now with the BBC, is to visit Sierra Leone to report on how Comic Relief funds are being spent.

A voluntary organisation set up to keep seriously ill people alive until paramedics can take over has received a funding boost, with £1,600 from the Gannett Foundation, the charity arm of Newsquest’s parent company.
Bransgrove and District Community responders has attended more than 200 incidents where people have been taken ill.

Amateur equestrian photographers have the chance to win £400 of camera equipment in a contest at this year’s Badminton Horse Trials.
Pictures from previous events can be sent in to grace a ten metre wall at the Trials, between May 3 and 6. More details can be found at Horse & Hound magazine.

Readers returned more than 1,000 coupons in five days to support the North Wales Daily Post demand for the Government to halt plans to axe a number of rural post offices.
The protest notes will be sent to Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling.