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After reading of his crime in the Cornish Guardian, a thief with a conscience returned £100 of child benefits that he stole from a young mother of three.Police in St Austell received an envelope containing the money – and an
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Assistant editor dies at 43
The assistant editor of the Coventry Evening Telegraph, Paul Simoniti, has died aged 43. He had been battling against cancer and died in Myton Hospice in Warwick. Paul began his career on the Nuneaton Evening Tribune as a reporter and
Liverpool papers gagged
A Liverpool newspaper has won the right to appeal against a gagging order preventing it from publishing details about city nightclub Cream. A high court judge granted the world-famous club an injunction preventing the Liverpool Echo – and its sister
Former editor takes on cancer role
A former daily newspaper editor from Liverpool has been named as the new boss of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Centre. Mike Unger, (58), was the editor of the Liverpool Daily Post between 1979 and 1982, before moving to the
Birthday time at the Express
A Berkshire weekly newspaper has been celebrating 190 years of news coverage. Editor Paul Thomas and his team at the Windsor and Eton Express were joined by leading members of the local community for the paper’s birthday celebrations. Paul paid
Journal marks tragedy anniversary
The 50th anniversary of the Lynton and Lynmouth flood disaster has been marked by a weekly newspaper with a special 12-page supplement. The North Devon Journal included the supplement in its August 15 edition, exactly 50 years after more than
KMG stations re-named
Two radio stations owned and run by the Kent Messenger Group are to get a new name. From Monday, September 2, Medway Mercury FM and Tonbridge Mercury FM will broadcast under the name KM-fm. The KM Radio division of the
News in brief
After months of campaigning by the Northern Echo for improvements to be made to crumbling road crash barriers on railway bridges, a £1.5m project on a bridge which provides a key traffic link has been announced.The Echo began the campaign
Union halts Newcastle action
A pay dispute at Newcastle Chronicle and Journal Ltd has been settled. National Union of Journalists members at the company, publishers of The Journal, Evening Chronicle, Sunday Sun and Herald & Post series, had held a series of one-day and
Back to the art room for news staff
Thirty members of staff at Newsquest Oxfordshire are being offered a one-day workshop by the Art Room charity – during work hours. Staff will have the chance to have a go at some basic artistic techniques using household objects such
Mail men on the move
Andy Chatfield has been appointed deputy editor of the Oxford Mail and Oxford Star. Andy, who is 37 and has held the post of assistant editor since September, will have responsibility for production and digital media, in addition to his
News in brief
More than £115,000 has been raised by the South Wales Evening Post and Port Talbot Courier’s Steel Blast Appeal following last year’s Corus explosion in Port Talbot.The appeal has already paid out £87,000 to the families and survivors and the
Blair's constituents against military action – Echo poll
Tony Blair has been urged to step back from war with Iraq – in an exclusive poll of his own constituents by his local paper, The Northern Echo. The poll conducted in Sedgefield revealed that 64.6 per cent believe the
Man accused of making racist telephone calls
A man has appeared in court charged with making racist telephone calls to the deputy editor of the Bristol Evening Post. Gordon Maddocks, (43), from Broomfield in Bristol, is charged with making 27 phone calls to Stan Szecowka’s office between
Outbreak town ridiculed by "ill-informed outsiders"
The people of Barrow-in-Furness have long been used to seeing their town ridiculed by ill-informed outsiders as a place which should be avoided at all costs.Some of the depictions of the town since the Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak hit the headlines
Popular strip on public display
The creator of a comic strip which appears in a Norfolk weekly newspaper has been driven to the brink of insanity trying to prepare for the cartoon’s first public appearance. Skip and Horrie first appeared in the Lynn News four