A debate in the House of Commons on the scope of the Freedom of Information Act is due to continue tomorrow, with opponents of the Bill prepared to block it by keeping the debate going on to run out of parliamentary time.
The Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill, a private members’ bill, would exempt both the House of Commons and the Lords from the provisions of the Act, and faces cross-party criticism in the lower house.
The Campaign for Freedom of Information’s briefing on the bill is at www.cfoi.org.uk. You can read last week’s debate here.

The second generation of free dailies is competing on editorial quality with paid newspapers, often with relatively large staff, according to the World Association of Newspapers.
The new, quality free newspapers will be on display at the 14th World Editors Forum, in Cape Town in June, which will devote a session to the editorial and commercial strengths and weaknesses of the new free papers – content-packed editions delivered to homes as well as picked up on public transport.

The Western Daily Press has secured 1,000 Glastonbury tickets for a token-collect reader offer this week.
To win the chance of buying one of these coveted tickets through the Western Daily Press, readers must have followed Glastonbury’s own registration process which ran from February 1 to March 5 this year. The successful applicants will be drawn at random after 9am on May 3.

The Scotsman’s audience has surpassed the 4m mark for the first time.
Earlier this year, Scotsman.com achieved record unique users and page impressions following the release of its January ABCe audit. This was followed last month by the release of the Jan-Dec 2006 National Readership Survey data, which saw The Scotsman newspaper in the print format increase readership by seven per cent to 217,000 readers per day.

The Belfast Telegraph has revealed that Queen’s University’s new £45m state-of-the-art library was named after Belfast Telegraph publisher Sir Anthony O’Reilly.
The building is on schedule to be completed by 2009 and will be named The Sir Anthony O’Reilly Library.