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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Changes to a European directive to protect and encourage legitimate financial journalism could be implemented next year after being ratified by the European Parliament. The Market Abuse Directive, to eliminate insider dealing and market manipulation, means journalists may have to
The regional press has moved to protect its position in the face of increased competition from the BBC’s regional websites. An official review of the services provided by BBC Online is being conducted by former Trinity Mirror chief executive Philip
Former Lancashire Evening Telegraph editor Peter Butterfield has been appointed to the Calderstones NHS Trust. He was editor from 1985 to 2000 and has since worked as a lecturer in journalism at Edge Hill College in Ormskirk. He is also
Papers at the Birmingham Post & Mail were under threat as millions of gallons of water flooded into the papers’ city centre headquarters. An eight-inch water hydrant which feeds the former Post & Mail tower had sheared during Friday evening,
An initiative where newspaper court stories involving smugglers are passed on to other regional press outlets in a bid to stem the tide of crime is being hailed a success. The Guernsey Press and Star is doing its bit by
Editor David Penman has defended his newspaper’s policy of identifying school children pictured on his pages by their full names. His comments came after a head teacher who was unhappy with the policy contacted the BBC to voice his concerns.
Wrexham football club has backtracked on a ban which the Daily Post says was slapped on one of its sports reporters after the club took exception to one of its stories. The Daily Post says it was told on Tuesday
Tony Blair launched his Big Conversation with the people of Britain by giving an exclusive interview to the South Wales Argus. The Prime Minister’s new consultation exercise in advance of the next General Election began in Newport. And he spoke
The Citizen in Gloucester was among the media criticised at a heated public debate following the recent arrest of a terrorism suspect in the area. Head of content Matt Holmes faced the public at a meeting so popular that the
Regional press journalist-turned-fantasy writer Mark Chadbourn has won a top award at this year’s British Fantasy Awards. The former Burton Mail journalist, who had his first novel published in 1992, won first prize in the short fiction category for his
Keen to prove that women are just as good as men when it comes to getting behind the wheel, Eastern Daily Press journalist Isabel Cockayne decided to go one step further and learn to fly an aeroplane. With the help
A journalist who spent 27 years working for the Plymouth Evening Herald has died. Mike Miller, who retired in 1995, died after suffering the latest in a series of heart attacks. He was 65. Before joining the Evening Herald Mike
The Manchester Evening News has announced that two of its senior management team have joined the board.Julie Tattersall, who is head of newspaper sales, is now newspaper sales director, and financial controller Howard Standen has been made finance director. The
When Bristol Observer reporter Sharon Kelly was asked to try out a flying trapeze for a feature in the newspaper, memories of how she once dreamt of joining the circus came flooding back. Sharon leapt at the chance to join
An investigation has been launched after a picture of an innocent man was published in The Gazette, Blackpool, purporting to be that of a convicted rapist. The photograph had been given to the newspaper by Lancashire Police, in the belief
Tickets given away in the Bristol Evening Post for Concorde’s homecoming were changing hands for more than £500 hours before it took off. Three thousand tickets to see Concorde 216 touch down at Filton for the last time were given