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.
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Ian Mean has been appointed the new editor of The Citizen, Gloucester, succeeding Spencer Feeney, who is moving to Swansea to edit the South Wales Evening Post. Ian, (55), is currently assistant editor, (news and marketing), at the Western Morning
A radio station owned by the Reading Evening Post is to change its name before it launches this autumn. The station, which until now had been known as New City FM, will now be called Reading 107FM. The owners, a
Police ordered a team from the Bristol Evening Post to leave a public meeting – despite the fact they had an invitation. Reporter Rebecca Camber and photographer James Sandercock were at a meeting about rising crime when police told them
Top newspaperman Roger Jeffery has died after an eight-month battle with cancer. He was 59. He joined the now-closed Nuneaton Observer as a trainee reporter, straight from the town’s King Edward VI Grammar School, quickly moved to the Nuneaton Evening
Detectives in Hull have the names of eight football violence suspects after Hull Daily Mail readers responded to a front page call for information. The Mail printed pictures of the suspects after they were captured on video by a resident
Labour chairman Charles Clarke will be chief guest and speaker at the Society of Editors’ gala annual dinner during its York conference. The controversial minister has been hitting the headlines for his plain speaking – not least for his criticism
The Yorkshire Evening Post has reached its target of raising £2m for a local children’s hospice in just 18 months.The A Place For Us appeal was launched to build a new stand-alone unit to treat children with terminal diseases at
An exclusive interview with the top Government adviser on mobile phone mast safety by the Exeter Express and Echo is to be presented to a meeting of the national pressure group, the Federation of the Electronics Industry.As part of the
The company that produces four Westcountry daily newspapers has been awarded a top printing honour. Westcountry Publications’ print division, Westcountry Design and Print, has gained membership of the International Newspaper Colour Quality Club run by publishing industry organisation IFRA. The
The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times have been put up for sale by their publisher, SMG. The cross-media group announced plans to sell the three Glasgow-based regional titles along with the rest of its publishing division, which includes 11
A new-look Bolton Evening News has been unveiled. The changes follow months of research and planning by staff at the paper. Its new masthead marks the culmination of a gradual redesign of the paper which has taken place over the
The Essex Chronicle is moving its printing operation to the Westcountry in a move that will cost more than 50 jobs. The paper, along with its sister paper the Brentwood Gazette, is currently printed in Chelmsford at the Westway, Widford
York Evening Press reporter Richard Edwards switched from writing about fires to fighting them when he spotted smoke coming out of a drain in the office car park. Rubbish and dead leaves had caught light in the drain next to
A free Internet writing magazine is celebrating three years of writing from its talented pool of scribes.Hackwriters, which originated from a college’s creative writing course, is devoted to good writing, on any subject. Editor Sam North gives an update for
Former Regional Independent Media group MD Ernest Petrie has taken on a new challenge – as part of a group that has bought the Alloa-based Wee County News from Johnston Press. The management buy-out also involves former RIM finance director
The editor of a weekly newspaper swapped the newsroom for an army parachute school – in the name of charity. Gary Lawrence, of the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, celebrated his 40th birthday with a daring parachute jump to raise money