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Birmingham Evening Mail journalist Paul Fulford is training hard in preparation to run the New York Marathon. Paul is running the 26.2 mile race on Sunday, November 3, to raise money for the Evening Mail’s Christmas Tree Fund. It will
Scottish journalist Arnold Kemp, a former editor of The Herald in Glasgow, has died. He was 63. He had been on holiday in Ireland with his partner, Anne Simpson, a writer at The Herald, when he suffered a heart attack.
The deputy editor of the Leicester Mercury joined a panel of journalists, editors and police in a debate on how the nation’s youth is portrayed by the media. Jeremy Clifford was one of the journalists attending the event called Britain’s
The Birmingham Post is collaborating in a major initiative with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to bring classical music to a wider audience. Every copy of The Birmingham Post on Saturday contained a CD recorded by the orchestra to
The Hereford Times is celebrating a double success. Within hours of the paper publishing a front-page article about Herefordshire Council’s decision to ban toy windmills from children’s graves in the city cemetery, the decision was reversed. After the council claimed
A 14-day strike by National Union of Journalists members at the Rotherham Advertiser was called off at the 11th hour after both sides agreed to talks. Members had been due to begin their second protest over pay on Wednesday. But
Three Scottish newspapers acquired by Johnston Press as part of its deal to buy Regional Independent Media earlier this year are being sold on. The Galloway Gazette, Carrick Gazette and Stornoway Gazette/West Coast Advertiser are to be transferred to Scottish
A new monthly magazine from Archant Norfolk, targeting the county’s retired population, has hit the streets. Let’s Talk! is the brainchild of the Eastern Daily Press’s Steve Snelling and evolved under former managing director Bob Crawley’s development team. Norfolk weeklies
Sports journalist Allan Bates has died aged 72. Tamworth-born Allan was one of the area’s most enthusiastic supporters of sport, and was a freelance reporter for the Tamworth Herald for almost 30 years. In his role he was the driving
An inquest into the death of a respected Yorkshire journalist has recorded a verdict of accidental death. Halifax Evening Courier business editor Arnold Woods, (55), was involved in a collision with a car while out cycling at the beginning of
A Western Daily Press journalist had an anxious wait at the altar – when his fiancée’s hired car broke down on the way to church. Past experiences of fast-approaching deadlines in the newsroom paled into insignificance as Matt Childe’s nerves
Readings from a true-life crime book by journalist Don Hale will form the centrepiece to a literary event at the Wirksworth Festival. Don Hale, a former editor of the Matlock Mercury, lives in the Derbyshire town and his book Town
A weekly newspaper is exploiting a potential 7,000-strong readership boost by taking in a neighbouring area. The Cannock Mercury has been renamed the Cannock & Rugeley Mercury and now has a readership of almost 45,000 across the Chase district of
Geoff Martin has been named as the new editor of the Hampstead & Highgate Express Series. Currently editor of the Belfast Newsletter, Geoff will take over from Ross Lydall who left the Ham & High at the end of May
Staff from every department at an evening newspaper are pitching in with story ideas – after specially-designed business cards were printed for people to carry around. New recruits in mid and north Essex are being given out-of-hours contact cards with
A series of key editorial and training appointments – including a new editor for a Sunday regional – has been announced by Trinity Mirror. At Trinity Mirror Regionals’ Cardiff centre, Tim Gordon (right) has been promoted to editor of Wales