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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Scarborough Evening News sports reporter Tony Smith has died. He was 56. He had covered Scarborough Football Club for the paper for the past six seasons and was a familiar face at the club’s McCain Stadium. Before joining the Evening
Staff at the Evening Echo in Essex have said goodbye to a journalist who has left the Basildon office after almost four decades. Keith Bartels – known as Barty – retired after 36 years at the paper. Barty joined the
Paul Napier has been appointed as the new editor of the Hartlepool Mail, succeeding Harry Blackwood, who left the company in March. Paul is currently editor of the Scarborough Evening News, a post he has held since November 2001. He
Police are appealing for witnesses after shots were fired through a window at the Coventry Evening Telegraph in the middle of the night. No one was hurt in the incident, in which a man fired two shots through a small
A local newspaper has helped create a hundred new businesses in a year. Business Challenge was launched early last year by the Scunthorpe Telegraph and the South Humber Business Advice Centre. Editor Jon Grubb said there could be “no better
A large and valuable collection of books belonging to the late journalist Robert McLaughlan has been donated to Glasgow Universities Chrichton Campus in Dumfries.Robert, who died in 1999, was a graduate of the university and a leader writer, financial commentator
A formal complaint has been lodged by an evening newspaper after it found the local council was giving postal voters false information. Several members of the public – as well as Scunthorpe Telegraph editor Jon Grubb – called North Lincolnshire
Johnston Press has welcomed two new directors to the boardroom.Martina King, regional marketing director of Internet firm Yahoo!, and Simon Waugh, the British Gas deputy managing director, have both joined as non-executive directors, while independent director Sir Harry Roche has
Alan Osborn, editor of the Carmarthen Journal for the past 20 years, is to retire. The 61-year-old has spent his entire career with the Northcliffe group, joining the South Wales Evening Post as a copy boy in 1956. Later he
The Prime Minister has written a special article for Local Newspaper Week, highlighting the thirst for local news and information that he believes is being fed by a growing sense of community. Tony Blair said: “There is a renewed pride
North Devon Journal sports reporter Chris Rogers is celebrating after being selected as one of six finalists for The Daily Telegraph’s national Young Sports Writer Competition. Chris, (23), was delighted to find out he had won a ticket to The
Strikes in protest at management pay offers were taking place at centres in Bradford and Bolton today. The Newsquest centres, which between them produce 12 newspapers, were hit by action from the National Union of Journalists. Chapel meetings at both
Independent News & Media, which owns newspapers including the Kentish Times and Islington Gazette, is set for a cash injection after shareholders approved a move to launch a rights issue to raise millions of euros and strengthen the group’s balance
The biggest change in the 120-year history of two Cambridgeshire newspapers will take place tomorrow, when their Friday publication day is moved forward to a Wednesday. Archant Anglia titles The Cambs Times and Wisbech Standard newspapers have had a Friday
A date has been set for the Yorkshire Press and Media Ball, a charity event to raise money for Yorkshire Cancer Research. The event will be sponsored by gas firm Transco, and will be held at the Royal Armouries in
Reporter and novice driver Emma Snedden has been taken for a spin – quite literally – in an attempt to improve her driving. Emma, from the Lincolnshire Echo, failed her driving test 12 times before getting her licence two years