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The Whitby Gazette has teamed up with local brewery Black Dog to launch a beer to mark the paper’s 150th anniversary. The 5.2 per cent bitter Whitby Gazette Special Edition is available at selected pubs in the Whitby area –
The Harrow Times has helped a local sports charity get on the move with a donation of £1,000. Harrow Special Olympics, for people with learning disbilities, will use the cash from the weekly newspaper to fund travelling costs for its
A former Southern Daily Echo journalist has been thanked for his work at a special lunch held by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. Peter East, who now works as a reporter on the Romsey Advertiser, was invited to Lord Montagu’s ancestral
The Halifax Evening Courier’s Save It campaign has been handed a major boost with a £300,000 grant from the New Opportunities Fund.The paper’s initiative helped fund a start-up doorstep recycling service which will now collect from 25,000 homes following the
A Merseymart and Star journalist is gearing up for a 10km run to raise money for charity. Reporter Jamie McLoughlin is currently in training for the L1310K event which will take place on the streets of Liverpool in October. He
The Evening Gazette has been inudated with letters after it spoke out on racism – and urged readers to do the same. Editor Steve Dyson said there has been a tremendous response to the paper’s Speak Out Against Racism initiative,
Veteran reporter Adam Trimingham is to be made an honorary freeman of Brighton and Hove in recognition of his services to journalism and the city. Adam, (61), is set to retire from The Argus in Brighton next month after 30
The Press and Journal has announced plans to launch a new compact edition on Saturdays. The Aberdeen-based broadsheet daily hopes to unveil its compact issue on August 7, which will be available for sale each Saturday on a trial basis
The editor of a weekly newspaper has threatened his rival with legal action after stories and quotes were lifted word for word from his publication. The row blew up after the Somerset Standard, owned by Northcliffe Newspapers, set up a
Newspaper executives joined past and present staff from the Derbyshire Times to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the paper at a gala celebration at Chatsworth House. Almost 170 guests were invited to the black tie event, hosted by the Duke
Former Northampton Chronicle & Echo journalist Cyril Harte has died after an illness. He was 87. Cyril, (left), first joined the Chronicle & Echo at the age of 15 on a printing apprenticeship but left to join the Army as
Outgoing Newspaper Society president John Robertson has been elected chairman of the Society’s Independent Publishers Forum by the eight newly elected IPF Councillors.John, who is also the deputy chairman of Newbury Weekly News, takes over the from Jeremy Spooner of
Bradford’s Telegraph & Argus scooped the national press as they clamoured to report the furore surrounding the BBC’s film exposing the British National Party this week. On the day the BBC1 documentary The Secret Agent was aired, the T&A splashed
Tributes have been paid to regional newspaper editor Trevor Walls, who fell to his death during a solo mountain hike. Trevor, who had edited weekly newspaper The Glaswegian for almost two years, fell while climbing Buachaille Etive Mor in Glencoe.
The Harborough Mail is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year and has published a special supplement looking back at the newspaper’s history. The 12-page pull-out features some of the biggest stories to have appeared in the Mail over the years
A dedicated sports journalist who wrote his first report for a newspaper aged 12 has died at 59 from a rare form of cancer. Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph sports editor Ian Davidson, (left), had suffered complications during an illness he had