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.
If you want to look up a story from a certain month you can use our Journalism News Archive which lists stories by date and also according to which channel or category they appeared in (eg law, campaigns, awards.)
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If you think it is difficult making your way around Grimsby town centre on a busy Saturday afternoon, imagine what it is like for wheelchair users. I took up the challenge of manoeuvring a wheelchair around Freshney Place – and
Visitors to the Southern Daily Echo in Southampton could have been forgiven for thinking they had stepped on to the set of Chicago. Heartbeats were raised as the paper’s female staff slipped into fishnets to raise money for a Southampton-based
A new gardening publication is to be produced for Lincolnshire. The supplement, Gardeners’ Trail, is produced in-house at the Lincolnshire Echo and will be published four times to coincide with each new season. The layout of the publication will include
A new monthly East Anglian property magazine has been launched for North London. The publication, Norfolk and North Suffolk Property, proved to be a winner when the first edition was distributed as an insert to the Hampstead and Highgate Express.
Head of features, Sally King, is to lead the editorial pack of runners from the Evening Echo in south Essex as they embark on Tesco’s Race for Life 2002. The team, which hopes to notch up top sponsorship figures for
The Shields Gazette is giving its readers the chance to win a modelling contract. Wannabe models will have the chance to strut their stuff on the catwalk at a fashion show organised by the paper – and two of them
Page 2 of 2 I am acutely aware that one can’t undo in three months the damage caused by so many years of smoking. But medical experts say that carbon monoxide will be eliminated from my body in 24 hours,
As the debate about fox hunting rumbles on, the Lincolnshire Echo has decided to ask its readers whether they want a ban. And the people of Lincolnshire have voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping fox hunting as it is. The
Page 2 of 2 I am acutely aware that one can’t undo in three months the damage caused by so many years of smoking. But medical experts say that carbon monoxide will be eliminated from my body in 24 hours,
Christmas is coming early for soldiers from Colchester who will be spending the festive season in Kosovo. Most of the soldiers from 10 Transport Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps will not be home for Christmas. Instead they will be relying on
Market research among staff and readers of the Anglia Advertiser has helped mould a big shake-up of the group’s titles for 2002. The changes will see major investment in the north Norfolk/north Essex newspapers and their staff. The improvements to
A crime-fighting feature in the Wolverhampton Express & Star has notched up a one-in-four success rate. Since Dudley’s Most Wanted was launched a year ago readers have played a key role in cracking dozens of crimes. Police release four pictures
The Scunthorpe Telegraph has revealed plans to move from its home of 50 years to new premises in a new office development in the town. The £300,000 investment by the newspaper – and parent company Northcliffe – will safeguard 70
An article from the Plymouth Evening Herald which tells the story of a woman’s struggle against years of domestic violence, is to be used in a Crown Prosecution Service magazine. By feature writer Martin Freeman, the report first appeared in
Readers of the Liverpool Echo are being invited to have their say in the city’s bid to be the European capital of culture. The paper is asking its readers for their views on the bid to win the title in
Michael Davis, angling correspondent for the Essex Chronicle, has died. Better known as Mike, he had fought against heart problems for more than a year and had been in hospital for much of that time. For many years Mike had