The Society of Editors raised more than £11,000 for The Journalists’ Charity through a partnership with Camelot, the main sponsor of the Society’s Glasgow conference in November.
Camelot provided Daily Play cards at the annual gala dinner and the Royal Bank of Scotland made a substantial donation.

A new online campaign is calling on readers of the Bolton Evening News to join its crusade against the rising number of potholes on the region’s roads.
The paper is eventually hoping to publish a gallery of the worst potholes around.

Chorley and Leyland Guardian editor Chris Maguire told local business leaders about life as an editor and his career as a journalist when he spoke to the South Ribble Business Club.

Newspaper editors today are confronted with an imposing task: doing more with fewer staff and fewer resources.
How some newspapers are confronting this challenge, and continue to produce quality newspapers, will be examined in a session on “multi-newspaper newsrooms” at the World Editors Forum, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from June 3.

MEN Media has chosen Manchester’s New Children’s Hospital Appeal as its official charity of the year for 2007.
The New Children’s Hospital Appeal aims to raise £20million to provide the latest equipment for diagnosis and treatment and a place for parents to stay when their child is in hospital. The Appeal will ensure that when it opens in 2009, the new hospital will provide the best medical facilities for children from Manchester and the North West.

A radio breakfast show broadcasted directly from the Halifax Evening Courier reception when the new tabloid look was launched this week.
The Pulse of West Yorkshire was there between 6am and 10am for the new paper’s launch.

A team of six Lincolnshire Echo journalists has completed Lincoln’s 10km race.
Feature writers Sarah Holt and Charlotte Orson, deputy sports editor John Pakey, reporters Barry Darra and Matthew Pike and sports writer Mark Whiley all clocked in before the hour mark – except for Sarah, who was one minute outside.