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Jason Gibbins is to become the new editor of the Daventry Express. Currently deputy editor of the Buckingham Advertiser and Review Group, Jason (pictured) will join the Express on November 17, succeeding David Granger who is leaving to work in
The Evening Press backed a winner when it sponsored a fun-packed family race meeting at York Racecourse. More than 21,000 people turned out for the Evening Press Sunday Race Day, when hen parties, birthday groups and families mingled with racing
Long-serving sports editor Ray Tucker has retired after 34 years with the Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press. Colleagues past and present, together with Ray’s family, gathered to mark the occasion at a party at The Woodlands Hotel in Spalding.
A Manchester Evening News investigation has led to the suspension of a police chief accused of removing evidence during a murder investigation. The newspaper has told that despite being the subject of criminal inquiry – and an unrelated internal investigation
A page three apology in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph has failed to win over Grimsby Town FC – and the paper’s football writer is still banned from Boundary Park. The paper made the first move to improve relations between the
Daily Star editor Peter Hill has joined the Press Complaints Commission as an editorial member, replacing Neil Wallis, former editor of The Sunday People.Before joining the Daily Star in 1978, Peter had worked at several other national and regional newspapers,
Production editor Jayne Thomas has returned from a study trip across the Atlantic with an insight into the way North American newspapers treat the news. Jayne, who works at the Neath and Port Talbot Courier, visited a clutch of newspapers
Former Leicestershire journalist Leslie Wilkes has died after a long illness. During a lengthy career he worked for the Leicester Mercury, first as its motoring correspondent and then features editor. In 1961 he became editor of the Leicestershire Advertiser, where
For 13 years, Mark Roach reported on non-league football, covering games for local weeklies such as the Maidenhead Advertiser, Slough Observer and Grantham Journal. Many readers followed the teams’ exploits through their local paper but the average attendance was usually
Staff at the Daily Echo in Bournemouth are taking part in a particularly hairy ordeal. They have pledged to take part in a razor-sharp charity quest to raise funds for male cancer charity campaignEveryman. Fourteen staff at the Newsquest title
A reporter carried a knife onto a holiday flight to East Midlands Airport and arrived at his destination unchallenged. The Derby Evening Telegraph revealed the potential for security breaches two years on from the September 11 terrorist attacks. The newspaper
Reporter Jo Macdonald enjoyed a new perspective on life in East Anglia – when she took to the controls of a light aircraft to be put through her paces above a patchwork of fields. But she was to see the
A new memorial to World War II hero Colin Grazier has been erected in the Tamworth suburb of Two Gates – the final goal in the Tamworth Herald’s long-running campaign to honour the sailor who died during a mission to
An evening newspaper editor is on top of the world after conquering the summit of the world’s highest freestanding peak, Mount Kilimanjaro. Plymouth Evening Herald editor Alan Qualtrough, (54), embarked on the challenge of a lifetime climbing the 20,000ft peak,
New research on the local newspaper industry will be previewed at an industry conference next week. The strength of regional and local identity, the ways in which it develops, and the importance of the regional press to people’s sense of
Grimsby Telegraph football writer Stuart Rowson has been banned from dealing with Grimsby Town FC. The club made the move hours before the club’s last home match – in the wake of the newspaper’s reports of how a matchday ambulance