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Proposals to allow TV cameras into court are still under discussion by the Government, according to a spokeswoman from the Department for Constitutional Affairs.
Constitutional Secretary Lord Falconer is still working on proposals on televising criminal trials, even though he had hoped to unveil his proposals before the end of 2006.
The spokeswoman told Media Lawyer: “He is going to be taking it forward. There is still some work to do, and that it what he is doing. He is looking at various pieces of legislation.”


Press Complaints Commission chairman Sir Christopher Meyer has confirmed that video reports on newspaper websites will come within the Commission’s regulatory remit.
He told Andrew Neil on BBC News 24’s Straight Talk that an announcement would be made in the next few weeks.


Severe weather conditions almost jeopardised publication of the current Wiltshire Times after a power cut hit hours before printing was due to begin.
Strong winds triggered a fault in Trowbridge, where the newspaper has its main office, but power was restored well before the four-hour estimate from power engineers.


High-profile speakers from the Welsh Assembly, the National Union of Journalists and the Amicus union discussed the impact of media control on the broadcast and newspaper industries in Wales at the launch of the Media Matters in Wales campaign.
Topics for discussion included job losses at the BBC, ITV and at Trinity Mirror newspapers.


Bucks Herald chief photographer Derek Pelling is to run the London marathon in April.
He will be raising cash through sponsorship for Florence Nightingale House, the Aylebury Hospice, and a local cancer care and haematology unit which cared for his late mother.