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A former managing director of the South Wales Evening Post has died following a battle with cancer. Garry Rouse, who retired in 1993, had been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year. He started work with the company in 1985
Anna Jenkins has been appointed deputy editor at the Western Gazette in Yeovil. The 39-year-old is an experienced journalist, having worked for various regional titles across the country, and most recently spent two years in communications with the NHS. After
A former regional newspaper reporter has told how he helped rescue people from the carnage of Tuesday’s bomb attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. Grant Hodgson, a former education correspondent for The Argus in Brighton, has described how
If he ever needs a new job, the editor of The Argus, Brighton, may not need to go far. Simon Bradshaw tried driving a bus as part of a charity day spent working for the Brighton and Hove Bus and
The Hull Daily Mail is hoping to reach a new audience by giving away free copies of the newspaper to rail passengers. It is helping passengers travelling between London and Hull on Hull Trains to keep track of the region’s
Readers of the Llanelli Star have embarked on a letter writing campaign to save the town’s 24-hour accident and emergency service.Readers are signing ready-printed letters published in the paper after the paper ran five pages of news stories, opinions and
The Bristol Evening Post has run a series of powerful stories to highlight the fact that less than eight per cent of rape allegations result in convictions.Deputy Editor Stan Szecowka has personal experience of the issue and wrote for the
As we reported last week, reporter Nicki Walker’s dogged persistence landed the Eastern Daily Press an exclusive interview with Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, released from jail after shooting dead a burglar.West editor Chris Bishop recalls the afternoon when everything fell
The Three Tenors have brought a summer sales boost at The Bath Chronicle when the legendary trio sang at a free concert, attended by around 32,000 people, to celebrate the imminent opening of the city’s spa.The Chronicle produced a 16-page
The Evening Post has demanded a public apology from Bristol City Council leader Barbara Janke over a memo accusing the newspaper of “irresponsible and inaccurate” reporting. Liberal Democrat Coun Janke sent the memo to 6,500 council staff after the Post
More than 30,000 Asian households in the north of England are to get a free monthly newspaper. It has been launched by the people behind Asian Sound Radio and is part of media development that could also see the launch
The editor of the Western Morning News supplement Living Cornwall is in line for one of the county’s greatest honours. Simon Parker has been elected a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd for his “promotion of all things Cornish”, in particular
The Liverpool Echo is becoming even bigger with a series of new supplements that will be introduced next month. The paper, which has a total readership of more than 400,000, plans to give readers more for their money with new
A photographer for the Evening Gazette was shot at by a youth with a pellet gun when he stopped to take pictures of the teenager firing at cars from a rooftop. Dave Charnley was in central Middlesbrough when he heard
The Chard and Ilminster News has written to the Lord Chancellor to express its concerns over centralised justice after preliminary court hearings on a local defendant were moved to Bristol.The paper believes justice should be done and be seen to
A former Exeter Express & Echo journalist has published a new book charting the history of oval track motor racing in the South West. Andy Weltch has compiled the 128-page Oval Racing in Devon and Cornwall title, which contains more