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News in brief
Union pay campaign targets publisher’s annual conference
Staff enjoy a Big Red Lie-in at The News
Red Nose Day antics raise £3,000 as volunteers complete a 24-hour sleepover
Mercury sets up face-to-face Q&A with Tory leader Howard
Tory leader Michael Howard has visited the Birmingham newsroom of the Sunday Mercury for a face-to-face question-and-answer session from readers. The meeting, set up by Mercury head of content Tony Larner, brought readers face-to-face with Mr Howard – and they
Readers lured to the pub by their local paper
A Welsh newspaper’s ‘surgery sessions’ with readers down the pub is to be featured in a national trade magazine. The North Wales Chronicle offers readers the chance to go along and meet reporters at Bangor’s Wetherspoons pub each Friday lunchtime
New Saturday paper to hit Kent
A new Saturday paper will be launched in Kent this weekend. Published by KOSMedia Ltd, which also owns Kent on Sunday, the Saturday Observer will increase the group’s readership across the weekend at a key time for advertisers. The free
Masterclass on offer for minority groups
A support network for black media professionals is to present a masterclass on ‘Stepping up the journalism career ladder – tips for success’. The event – for individuals from all visible minorities – is being run by Aspire, in partnership
Paper wins £300,000 grant for archive work
Bound volumes of 300 years-worth of issues will be transferred to microfilm
Compact format for weekly broadsheet
Editor “stunned” by response as 149-year-old title changes to an easier-to-handle format
Death of former Echo journalist
Former Northern Echo and Swindon Evening Advertiser journalist Stanley Hurwitz has died. The 84-year-old, who still worked as a freelance and was never without his camera and notepad, died in Cheltenham General Hospital after suffering a heart attack. Before becoming
Shetland Weekly prepares for launch
A new weekly paper for Shetland will hit the streets in less than three weeks. Shetland Weekly, which is promising to reflect life across the islands in an “unmissable, modern format”, will be unveiled on March 24 after a year
Deadline fumes scare sees newroom evacuated
A weekly newspaper team became part of the news this week when their offices were evacuated in a contamination scare just hours before their deadline. The Skegness Standard offices, along with other shops and commercial premises in the town centre,
BED Nose Day at The News
It will be Bed Nose Day not Red Nose Day at The News in Portsmouth later this week when staff take part in a 24-hour sleepover outside the newspaper’s offices. Staff have volunteered to take part in a Big Red
Cancer claims life of former assistant editor Lynda
Tributes have been paid to former Western Daily Press assistant editor Lynda Cleasby, who has died of cancer. The experienced journalist, who had recently celebrated her 50th birthday, had fought a brave battle after being diagnosed with cancer in 2003.
News in brief
A teenage asylum seeker threatened with deportation has won his bid to stay in the UK thanks to a campaign spear-headed by the Bournemouth Daily Echo. Thousands of readers got behind the campaign to let Andrei Bazanov stay after the
>Trainee helps paper win exclusive before starting work
Soon-to-be trainee reporter Derek Bish helped the Haverhill Echo get exclusive pictures and eyewitness accounts after a high-speed car chase – before he started his new job. Derek, (18), who currently lives on the Isle of Wight, is due to