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April 2011 News

PA launches live blog for betting website

The Press Association has launched a live weekly sports blog for interactive betting website Blue Square. Its Saturday Commentary blog will include up-to-the-minute PA news content and photos with embedded links to Blue Square’s betting opportunities around football and other

Newspaper group hits profit targets

Newsquest’s Herald and Times Group has announced the achievement of its planned profit targets last month in the face of challenging market conditions. The Glasgow-based group, which publishes The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times, said it had met profits

Council scraps monthly magazine to cut costs

A council has scrapped its monthly magazine as part of cost-cutting measures to help it save £65m. Hull City Council has now published the last edition of Hull in print and is encouraging residents to get information about the authority

Now, what was the name of that newspaper?

News that two regional daily newspapers have  been awarded public money from the government’s Regional Growth Fund to help boost job creation in their areas is welcome recognition of the wider role of the local media. But the handling of

Sir Michael Lyons to speak at regional press event

Outgoing BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has been announced as the guest speaker at a press event to be held in May. He will appear as Birmingham Press Club’s first celebrity guest of the year at a lunch event