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August 2009 News
Press plea to appeal hit-and-run sentence fails
Attorney General says Court of Appeal would not increase jail term
Weekly's cancer appeal tops £80,000 mark
Bid to refurbish unit storms ahead
Council audits remain a closed book
Earlier this year HTFP carried a story about a news agency’s laudable attempt to provide a comprehensive list of four-week council audits taking place this summer. Under the Audit Commission Act, local authorities are required to open their books for
Newspaper campaign funds town's new memorial
Project aims to honour all those who died in combat
Losing weight – there's an app for that
Love them or loath them, Apple iPhones are very popular and generally everywhere you turn. The marketing and technology companies have had a field day with some 65,000 applications being created since the phone first hit shelves. Around 1,500 of
Pub, pint, peanuts, parcel, parting
The plight of the postal service, and particularly small post offices, has been well-documented in recent years. Meanwhile, the local pub is also struggling during the recession as people stay in or flock to cheap drinks promotions in town centre
Take inspiration from this failure
A world record attempt to photograph the highest number of bikini-clad women in one place proved a miserable failure. The bid on an Essex beach attracted just 42 women – a figure somewhat shy of the current record which stands
Taking Memory Lane to court
Nostalgia features and Memory Lane slots have been a staple of the local paper for decades. But now they can take a darker and more sinister twist. Website Ancestry.co.uk has published details of more than a million court trials from
Press apology over inquest inaccuracies
Plus: Gangster’s former address prompts reprisal fear, and more resolved complaints from the PCC
MEN withdraws from ABC in circulation row
Rules fail to reflect distribution changes says paper
Weekly forces council to back down over audit
Councillors’ expense claims exposed after legal row
Newspaperman who became town mayor dies at 70
Frank Branston launched Bedfordshire on Sunday
Chronicle campaign helps save threatened club
FA reverses membership decision after fans’ pressure
Lecturing comeback for axed former editor
Weekly news chief was made redundant in JP shake-up
Newspaper Society seeks Olympics ad boost
Plus: Web hits boost for weekly and more news in brief