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Amardeep Bassey, the Sunday Mercury journalist being held in Pakistan, is still waiting to be deported despite his release being rubber-stamped by the Interior Ministry in Islamabad. It had been hoped that Amardeep (pictured) would be released without charge by
The Daily Mail & General Trust has said that it doesn’t expect to see any substantial improvement in advertising revenues this year after reporting a fall in profits. In its interim results for the six months to March 31, 2002,
Amardeep Bassey, the Sunday Mercury journalist held in Pakistan amid claims of spying, is expected to be released without charge by Tuesday. After reviewing a report of Amardeep’s case, based on his interrogation, the Home Secretary of the North West
Liverpool Daily Post & Echo boss John Bills has taken on a broader role within the Trinity Mirror group as managing director for the North West and Ireland.His deputy, Sara Wilde, has been appointed as the new managing director for
Police were called after Darlington Football Club chairman George Reynolds was involved in an incident outside the home of a Northern Echo journalist. A neighbour called the police, the Echo reported, after the chairman was seen shouting at football reporter
A journalist who has worked for The West Briton and sister paper the Cornish Guardian for 40 years has had his stalwart service recognised. During his years on the Cornish papers, many as a motor writer, Nigel Salmon has reported
Essex County Standard journalist David Grocott is undertaking a marathon cycle ride across the width of the country to raise money for charity. David (pictured) will ride coast-to-coast from Workington to Tynemouth in an attempt to raise money for the
The Hampstead & Highgate Express Series is looking for a new editor after Ross Lydall, currently in the hotseat, announced his departure. Ross will leave the paper on May 30 to become the local government correspondent on the Evening Standard.
Stephen Dyson has been appointed the new editor of the Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough. He will take over from Paul Robertson, who next week becomes editor of the Evening Chronicle, Newcastle. Stephen, (34), is currently deputy editor of the Birmingham Evening
Edith Bacon, a former Newcastle Journal journalist, has died. She was 98. Formerly Edith Base, she started work as a reporter at The Journal in 1919, and later edited the women’s page. In 1941 she left the paper to take
The Hull Daily Mail has begun its High Court battle to lift an injunction preventing it from revealing details about an HIV health scare terrifying families in Hull and the East Riding. Hundreds of patients have received letters advising them
A Sunday Mercury journalist held by the authorities in Pakistan amid claims of espionage has been placed in a lower security facility. Amardeep Bassey had been held at the Joint Interrogation Centre in Peshawar after he was found not to
Thousands of people around the country are gearing up to show their support for England in the World Cup – but one Liverpool Echo reporter has come up with a more unusual way of supporting the team than just cheering
The Morley Advertiser has responded to the barrage of criticism it has received over an article it printed about a gay mail-order company. Last week thousands of copies of the Advertiser were stripped from the shelves after outrage at comments
Exeter Express & Echo writer Rev Walter Jacobson has died, aged 78. One of Devon’s best known churchmen, he wrote the Weekend Thought column for the Echo for 25 years. He had fought a long battle with cancer, and his
The Office of Fair Trading is continuing its case against Aberdeen Journals Ltd, which it believes has abused its dominant market position. In July last year the OFT ruled that Aberdeen Journals had infringed the Competition Act 1998 by using