The Press Association will provide record levels of coverage of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. And as well as services for traditional print and broadcast media, PA will supply a variety of products to web and mobile customers, including SMS alerts, MMS stories, web headline packages and multimedia bulletins.
The news and picture agency will send ten football correspondents, seven PA and EMPICS photographers, six multimedia reporters and up to ten accredited freelancers. Expert analysis for regional newspapers will come from former England captain David Platt who will provide pieces before and after every England match. A weekly column will also be provided by FA director of football development Sir Trevor Brooking.

One of the Press & Journal’s longest-serving district reporters has been honoured for 30 years covering Banff for the Voice of the North.
John Thomson started out in journalism at the Aberdeen office of the weekly People’s Journal, before moving to the Press & Journal and Evening Express, which then had joint staff in their district offices. From 1990 he worked exclusively for the Evening Express, before returning to the P&J in 2002. He was given a kinetic watch to mark his three decades of service.

Newspaper editors attending next month’s World Editors Forum in Moscow will have the opportunity to use new media tools in a unique “Editors Weblog Workshop” that will run throughout the conference.
The workshop, designed to show editors how new media can enhance their newspaper work, will provide blogging, podcasting and video-blogging opportunities for participants. The workshop will be provided by the Editors Weblog, the Forum’s “virtual meeting hall” for editors from around the world.

The former offices of The Bucks Herald in Aylesbury are being demolished to make way for a theatre complex as part of the waterside scheme to replace the existing civic centre.
The once-buzzing site will be a temporary car park while plans are agreed for the final waterside design.