The Birmingham Mail has launched a new free weekly property supplement.

The ‘Homeseeker’ pull-out was previously part of a weekly product but the supplement has been switched to the Mail to ensure it hits a bigger audience every Wednesday.

This week’s launch edition of Homeseeker contained 44 pages and is being heavily promoted across Birmingham with promotion teams located in the city centre and supermarkets handing out leaflets and money off vouchers.

A series of adverts will also be aired on local radio during the first two weeks of launch.

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Broadcast and online regulation, user-generated content, intellectual property rights and privacy are to be examined at a media law conference in June.

Confirmed speakers include solicitor Sophie Lewis, a senior legal adviser at British Sky Broadcasting who will discuss the challenges of content delivery and licensing.

The conference is being organised by Management Forum and is on 1 June at the Rembrandt Hotel, London.

For more information email [email protected].

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Women’s lifestyle magazine Kent Today has relaunched to a wider readership and returned to in-paper distribution.

The change is in response to the challenging market for magazine advertising, says parent company Courier Media Group.

As well as aiming at a younger female market, the magazine is also appealing to men.

Distribution will now be 31,500 bi-monthly copies inserted in editions of the Kent and Sussex Courier and Sevenoaks Chronicle and a further 3,500 magazines distributed via pick-up points in Maidstone.

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Archant has reduced the size of its newspapers and will save £500,000 a year as a result.

Each paper will downsize in height from 39.4cm to 37.5cm which should see a saving of 5pc on all paper bills.

All editorial and advertising copy has had to be altered but Archant says no content has been lost.

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Birmingham Mail reporter Tony Collins had a brush with an Olympic star when he received a badminton lesson from Gail Ems.

Gail, who won a doubles silver medal in Athens five years ago, took the self-confessed first-timer and managed to at get some rallies going.

See a video of his efforts on the Birmingham Mail website.