Birmingham Mail editor Steve Dyson enjoyed tea at Buckingham Palace – along with a torrential downpour.

Steve was in London for a garden tea with some Lords and Ladies as well as some “normal folk” as put it on his blog.

Proceedings were quickly interrupted when the heavens opened and caused a mini-lake in one of the marquees.

See the photo collection on Steve’s ‘Editor’s Chair’ blog.

Hexham Courant deputy editor Brian Tilley has been given the highest accolade possible by his local Rotary Club for his services to journalism and the community.

Called the Paul Harris Award, it was created in memory of one of the movement’s founders in Chicago over a century ago.

Brian’s citation praised him as “one of the finest all-round journalists in the North East” who not only reported on Tynedale life but was very much part of it.

The Liverpool Daily Post has launched a new environmental section entitled It’s Our World designed to bring readers up-to-date on the latest ‘green’ issues.

Trinity Mirror, the Post’s parent company, is one of only 12 organisations to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard, a new award for companies who can show carbon reductions year on year for three years.

The Post recently held a networking event to mark the launch of the new section and to publicise some of the green initiatives going on behind the scenes at the paper.

Editor Mark Thomas said: “The environment is such an important issue for everyone, whether in business or their domestic lives, that I am delighted that the Daily Post and its sister papers are taking such an active role in Merseyside.”

A charity which enables youngsters aged ten to 19 to write and create their own front page in a day is preparing for closure.

The Newspaper Education Trust will cease business on 31 July after 15 years of educating the nation’s youth.

It held a farewell party on Monday at the West Ferry Printers, in London.

A closing statement from the trust said it had found it “increasingly difficult to attract funders” and it was therefore no longer viable to operate.

The Grimsby Telegraph is running a new ‘Bounce Back’ recession-busting campaign.

The Northcliffe daily has teamed up with some of north-east Lincolnshire’s most influential businesses to help readers through the recession.

Campaign features include showing readers how they may be eligible for benefits, ‘Trade Local’ stories about supermarket shopping and opportunities post-redundancy.

The Telegraph joins a host of other papers across the UK to run recession-based campaigns.