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.)
If you are looking for a story about a particular newspaper or media company, you can use the links in the ‘Main News Links’ list to the right to take you to our directory pages. Here you will find indexes of all the stories we have written about each of the newspapers and media companies featured on the site.
One of the longest-serving employees at Aberdeen Journals has signed off, taking his last shift in the press room 47 years after joining the firm.Paul Shand, (62), began as a 15-year-old newsroom ‘runner’, served an apprenticeship to become a process
When a shopping centre was voted one of the most disabled-friendly in the region, Sutton Coldfield Observer feature writer Ben Bentley had to go to find out why.Jumping into a motorised buggy, he braved the sniggers to find out about
The Press Association, the national news agency for the UK and Ireland, has won the contract to produce Sport England’s flagship publication, The Player.The Player is a quarterly national newspaper which is distributed to thousands of sports clubs, leisure centres,
Rescue teams at RAF Leconfield celebrated their 5,000th mission last month, so Hull Daily Mail reporter Jessica Boulton decided to try and gain an insight into their vital lifesaving work. She spent the day with a four-man crew, who told
The Evening Herald is teaming up with the Navy to bring Christmas cheer to servicemen and women serving overseas. It will collect messages from their families living in the Plymouth area and publish them in the newspaper during the festive
Pressure for colour pages has resulted in some printing being moved from the Lincolnshire Echo plant to presses at the Grimsby Telegraph, resulting in the loss of 25 jobs in Lincoln. Most of the staff are nightshift workers involved in
York Evening Press financial director Stuart Watts is back at work after being arrested and jailed for ‘crimes against Christmas’ He was one of a group of ‘convicts’ dragged through the ancient city streets to be jailed and bailed for
Customs measures to keep the UK free from another foot and mouth epidemic from imported foreign meat have been slammed by the Western Morning News. Editor Barrie Williams says that Farming Minister Lord Whitty has fudged an explanation of the
A weekly newspaper covering Essex and East London has been re-launched as The Enquirer. The Essex Courier Series papers made the move in a bid to re-brand their product and emphasise their independence from the big newspaper groups which run
The Manchester Evening News has stepped in to try to help a song dedicated to a terminally-ill girl get to number one. Opera star Russell Watson has recorded a single for Kirsty Howard, who was born with a rare heart
The Sentinel office in Stafford was inches away from being caught up a blaze when the restaurant beneath caught fire. Two fire crews attended the scene when flames flashed up a back wall where repairs were being carried out. Polyurethane
Former press officer and reporter John Scarlett has died, aged 88. He is perhaps best known in the circulation area of the Kent and Sussex Courier for reporting on village news for High Hurstwood since his retirement. But his track
The South Wales Echo has been finding out exactly what some of its readers think, with its second annual State of the Nation survey. The newspaper questioned readers on a variety of issues, including capital punishment, sport in Wales, the
Three trainee journalists from Archant Anglia have successfully completed their Level 4 NVQs in Newspaper Journalism (Writing). Jon Ball, from The Royston Crow, Fran Curtis of the Ely Standard in Cambridgeshire and Mark Linigard, a reporter with the Hunts Post,
Next year’s Local Newspaper Week will run from May 5 to May 11. Run by the Newspaper Society, the event celebrates the vital community role of regional newspapers across the UK. It also offers an industry wide opportunity to promote
A group of journalists has donated £3,000 to two Northern charities. The Northern Group of Motor Writers has shared the money it raised during its annual gala dinner between two trust funds in North Yorkshire and Teesside. The motoring journalists