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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A newspaper columnist who wrote about his long battle against cancer has died, aged 31. Jonathan Wilson, a columnist for the Sunday Herald, had been fighting against stomach, liver, and other cancers for five years – after being given only
Two Iraqi refugees gave themselves up to police at the head office of the Kent Messenger Group. The pair, who said they had paid $7,000 each to be brought to England from Turkey by lorry, arrived at Messenger House in
Shareholders at Ecng have backed the board’s bid to change the name of the company to Archant. Ecng’s daily titles are the East Anglian Daily Times, Eastern Daily Press, Evening News (Norwich) and the Evening Star (Ipswich). Among the 60-plus
A community correspondent from the South Wales Evening Post was attacked by a gang with an iron bar – the day after recording a Kilroy TV programme about teenage crime in Swansea. It was pure coincidence as the programme had
A former Bradford Telegraph and Argus reporter is to be honoured by the Church in recognition of his religious work. David Markham, (61), who retired from the paper in December, is one of four Honorary Canons who will be installed
The new managing director of Westcountry Publications has spoken of his hopes for the future in his new role. Duncan Currall joined the publishers of the Exeter Express & Echo, Plymouth Evening Herald, Torquay Herald Express and the Western Morning
Business editor Roan Fair swam to the occasion when he was challenged by a PR firm to take part in the Poole Lions Club Swimarathon, wearing a bow tie. Anyone for a dip?Pic: Poole Lions This year he was challenged
The hunt for the mother of a baby abandoned outside a couple’s front door has been boosted by the South Wales Argus. A series of police appeals for his mother to come forward has met with no response. Now the
The Irish News and Belfast Newsletter have both run special mastheads to drum up support for the city’s bid to be declared European city of culture in 2008. Both papers have shown the logo being beamed onto the local ship-building
In the true spirit of Farmhouse Breakfast Week, intrepid reporter James Bulpett tucked in his napkin and went off to sample a North Devon Farmhouse breakfast. Eleven o’clock is always a difficult time for me, as I am hungry enough
An appeal fund for a victim of the September 11 attacks on America who grew up in Devon has raised £5,000 thanks to the generosity of Herald Express readers.The cash raised in memory of Sarah Redheffer will go to Save
Newsquest Oxfordshire has submitted a planning application to build a £20m press hall at its Osney Mead base. The new press would replace outdated machinery. The newspaper publisher’s proposals are with Oxford City Council’s planning department and have yet to
As someone who always wants to get in on the act, the Ilford Recorder’s irrepressible newshound Scoopy has been treading the boards at a local theatre. The popular floppy-eared dog, who is usually seen on the children’s page of the
They tried… and they failed. So is it all over for the Rams? Not if the Derby Telegraph can help it. The paper rallied support for the beleaguered team by asking fans to point to the spot – the centre
The Shields Gazette is giving its readers the chance to win a modelling contract. Wannabe models will have the chance to strut their stuff on the catwalk at a fashion show organised by the paper – and two of them
A teenage boy who sparked an anthrax scare at the offices of the Evening Mail in Barrow has been locked up for one year. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sent a threatening letter and some powder