Welcome to our main news index. Here you will find all the news stories that have appeared on the site since our launch in February 2000.
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Tony Blair has praised the Newham Recorder’s bid to improve community safety and reduce the fear of crime. In a face-to-face meeting with local MP Tony Banks at Number 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister heard how residents are becoming
Only one in three Daily Post readers backed the outspoken North Wales Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom in a phone poll organised by the paper.He has been under attack recently after ordering a crackdown on speeding motorists, his stance on drugs
The South London Press has marked the tenth anniversary of the opening of Millwall Football Club’s New Den stadium with an eight-page pull-out supplement. The 10 years at The Den insert includes a series of news and feature articles and
Birmingham Evening Mail editor Roger Borrell is taking on additional responsibilities, as editor-in-chief of Trinity Mirror Midlands.He will take on a strategic role, to develop both the products and the people who produce them. Production editor Geoff Perfitt at the
The Bristol Evening Post is giving one romantic reader the chance to pop the question in style on St Valentine’s Day and literally shout their feelings from the rooftops. For the newspaper is currently searching for the most romantic man
The Shropshire Star’s award-winning website, Shropshirestar.com, is to get a new editor. Ian Harvey, who is currently the paper’s assistant chief sub, will take over from Mark Waugh in the New Year. Ian, (39), has worked for the Midland News
A group of journalists has donated £3,000 to two Northern charities. The Northern Group of Motor Writers has shared the money it raised during its annual gala dinner between two trust funds in North Yorkshire and Teesside. The motoring journalists
The Glenrothes Gazette has celebrated its 40th anniversary. During the last four decades the paper has seen 11 editors take the helm, including Jimmy Ross, who as the longest-serving editor to date, held the post for 10 years from 1972.
A cash award of £25,000 is on offer to Merseyside schools thanks to a new partnership between the Echo and Barclaycard. All state schools are invited to apply for the top prize of £10,000 in the Making a Difference awards,
Birmingham Evening Mail journalist Paul Fulford is training hard in preparation to run the New York Marathon. Paul is running the 26.2 mile race on Sunday, November 3, to raise money for the Evening Mail’s Christmas Tree Fund. The race
News editor John Adams has completed 35 years service with The Comet and Stevenage Herald. To mark his achievement, John was presented with a Kuss cottage clock from Archant regional managing director Garry Matthews.
Bristol Evening Post reporter Simon Peevers has finally managed to break the 10km barrier in his build-up to the BUPA Bristol Half Marathon. And it was all thanks to his new training regime – based on Gazza’s infamous diet of
“Standing in the big top of the Moscow State Circus, preparing to step from the dubious safety of a 40ft platform not much bigger than a skateboard and launch myself into the air, I began to realise it takes a
Newcastle Evening Chronicle reporter Rachel Kerr experienced police training first hand when she attended a familiarisation day held by Northumbria Police. Testing times The event, which was the fifth to be held by the force, is to help women find
The annual Archant awards night could offer a little more artistic interest than usual – as the organisers launch a company Pop Idol contest to find a performer for the big night in November. The Norwich-based company, which publishes the
Danny Lockwood, publisher and editor of the Dewsbury & District Press, has launched a new rugby league newspaper. The first issue of the League Weekly was published on Monday. Danny, a former amateur rugby league player for Yorkshire and Great