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Paul Linford

Paul Linford has been Publisher of HoldtheFrontPage since June 2008. He is a former assistant editor of The Journal, Newcastle and has also worked for the South Wales Echo, Derby Telegraph and Mansfield Chad.

CBI boss backs free advertising initiative

The director general of the Confederation of British Industries has become the latest high profile figure to lend his backing to a regional press campaign to help fledgling businesses. Nearly 500 local titles have signed up for the Local Business

Not quite on the ball

  The East Midlands MEP Emma McClarkin may indeed have been on the ball in her comments about scrapping relegation from the Premiership – but the Belper News was perhaps less so in its reporting of it. Relegation to and

Should football pundits be axed to save journalists’ jobs?

I don’t know whether Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford is a football fan, but this blog post calling for star presenters such as Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen to be sacked in order to save the jobs of BBC journalists

Former advertising watchdog chief joins PCC

A former deputy chairman of the Advertising StandardS Authiority has been appointed as a new member of the Press Complaints Commission. Neil Watts joins the press watchdog in place of the former MP and MSP John Home Robertson, who is

Headlinefail in Tonyrefail

  We doubt if the organisers of an ‘It’s a knockout’ style fun-day in the South Wales Valleys would have been too pleased with this headline from the NewsWales website.

Take Five: Doug Melloy

Long-serving Yorkshire weekly editor answers the questions