An Early Day Motion has been tabled in Parliament backing the Leicester Mercury and Age Concern campaign to Fight the Freeze, which is being supported by more than 3,300 readers.
Peter Soulsby MP’s motion reads “This House… urges the Government to look at increasing the hugely popular and important winter fuel payment to ensure that pensioners can keep their homes warm as energy prices continue to increase.”

A new press hall for Newsquest Oxfordshire has been given the green light by planners after originally being rejected by the local authority three weeks ago.
The extension to the press, which prints the Oxford Mail, Oxford Times and Daily Telegraph, provoked fears of what it might do to the skyline, yet the existing building is 20m high and 60m long.
The company says the development could create up to 20 jobs.

The former chief executive of lastminute.com, Brent Hoberman, has been appointed non-executive director at Guardian Media Group.

A glossy lifestyle magazine devoted to some of Cheshire’s most affluent areas has changed hands in an undisclosed deal.
Living Edge magazine has been bought from Hale-based Silk Press by Archant Life, the UK’s largest independently-owned regional media business.

Newcastle Journal columnist David Banks has taken delivery of 312 bottles of tap water – the equivalent of the 23st he weighs – which should last him until the end of his diet in march if he drinks them at the recommended rate of two litres a day.

The Hull Daily Mail is offering romantic couples the chance of a champagne meal in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, with one lucky pair set to scoop the prize especially to encourage a proposal of marriage. The Mail will also make a video of the proposal for its own website.

Plymouth’s growing population of Polish people can now log on to a web diary posted by 21-year-old translator Lucja Kromka, who lives and works in the city.
Her blog is being published in both Polish and English.

Hundreds of Daily Post readers have voted in favour of seeing more Welsh language in shops and supermarket signs.
Internet users logging on have taken part in a vote with 90 per cent of almost 1,000 people taking part keen to see a change.