Andy Gilpin has been appointed deputy editor of the Daily Post in north Wales. Andy, (30), joined the Post as a sports writer/sub in 2003 after starting his career with the Wrexham Mail in 2001.
He has worked on a series of big stories, one of which led to a ‘life ban’ from Wrexham FC for exposing a wage crisis which eventually led to the club going into administration. The ban was eventually lifted.

A former Carlisle United football star-turned-journalist is battling cancer, the Times & Star in Cumbria has revealed.
John Holliday, (36), has been undergoing radiotherapy for cancer of the tongue. He also worked at Border TV and most recently for Sky.

First-year BA (Hons) Press Photography students from University College Falmouth – who are already achieving national acclaim as The Pressgang – have taken part in a professional practice visit to photographic agency, Magnum. They learned from enthusiastic professionals about photographic archiving, book publishing, commercial image-making, how editorial photography is commissioned in Britain and what goes on at the negotiating table.
The visit was down to Magnum choosing University College Falmouth’s new BA (Hons) Press Photography course as a partner in its new educational programme.

The Suffolk Free Press is demanding a clean-up along one of Sudbury’s busiest roads, which has been labelled a “disgrace” and an “embarrassment” to the town.
The paper says that banks and verges along the eastern bypass and Springlands Way are strewn with plastic bags and other rubbish, with an approach road to a supermarket also a major offender.

The Manchester Evening News is urging people across Greater Manchester to ditch bottled water and turn back to the tap.
Billions of plastic bottles are languishing on landfill sites – and each takes up to 1,000 years to biodegrade.

Comments

Dave Colville (23/04/2008 12:23:12)
Re the MEN brief – how the hell do these ‘experts’ know bottles take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade? Did they have plastic bottles 1,000 years ago as a benchmark?
Load of old cobblers.