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.
If you want to look up a story from a certain month you can use our Journalism News Archive which lists stories by date and also according to which channel or category they appeared in (eg law, campaigns, awards.)
If you are looking for a story about a particular newspaper or media company, you can use the links in the ‘Main News Links’ list to the right to take you to our directory pages. Here you will find indexes of all the stories we have written about each of the newspapers and media companies featured on the site.
An experiment by the Bath Chronicle to test the efficiency of the postal service has had surprisingly good results. Following complaints of a poor delivery service in the Bath area, the Chronicle decided to test it for itself. The paper
Two instances of sickening soccer violence at Cardiff City matches have led police to team up with the South Wales Echo to identify the hooligans. And detectives have hailed the tremendous response of the public which has led to seven
Journalist Jerry Clarke has been appointed the official tour guide for Tombstone, Arizona, even though he lives and works in Cornwall! The West Briton writer has established a link between Britain’s old tin-mining centre and the town that was caught
The Western Daily Press has promised £1,000 to safeguard the future of a stump-tailed monkey. Fred, a macaque monkey, was rescued from a lab where he was injected everyday as a pharmaceutical company sought a cure for asthma. The Daily
Page 1 of 2 Skegness Standard reporter Rebekah Gunn devised a light-hearted questionnaire to try to find out a little more about some of the people she meets in Skegness, and hopes to pose her “burning questions” to a variety
The pay dispute between Newsquest Bradford and the National Union of Journalists has been resolved. It was announced today that the local chapel of the NUJ had accepted a package of measures put forward by the company. Full story at
A week-long campaign by the Tamworth Herald which offered readers free smoke alarms has received more than 330 calls and e-mails. Staffordshire Fire Service recently began a policy of offering to fit free alarms in every private home in the
The Oldham Evening Chronicle has joined forces with the police to crackdown on the growing number of mobile phone thefts. More than 700,000 handsets were stolen nationally last year, and thefts in Oldham have mirrored the national picture. Police have
Readers of the South Wales Argus have given a resounding “no” to the euro after the paper ran a week-long phone and website poll. Following a recent Welsh opinion poll that found a slim majority in favour of the euro,
The Hull Daily Mail’s chosen charity of the year for 2001 is benefiting from the generosity of readers, after one of two minibuses was handed over to a county blind group.Assistant editor Marc Astley handed over the keys and said:
The public has declared its opposition to plans to demolish hundreds of homes after being given a voice through its local paper. The Nelson Leader has conducted a telephone poll as a major planning inquiry continues. And the Leader Times
A former Aberdeen Evening Express sports editor has died. Ron Robertson, who retired in 1995, was diagnosed with leukaemia last October and died in hospital. He was 61. Ron had worked at the Evening Express for 40 years, joining the
The Basingstoke Gazette found a cool way to reward its newsboys and girls courtesy of the town’s local ice rink. Some 150 youngsters were invited to the ice hockey clash between home team Bison and the Fife Flyers. Circulation manager
David Edgley, who was managing director of the Bath Chronicle for 15 years, has died suddenly. David, who was 69, was on holiday in Madeira when he suffered a heart attack while sunbathing. He had suffered a number of previous
The work of former Neath Guardian and South Wales Echo reporter Neil Sterioduring major floods in York has been recognised in an industry award. Neil is press manager for City of York Council and a key member of theauthority’s marketing
The Western Morning News is laying the blame of euro-confusion firmly at the door of the Government.And to back up its point the paper is conducting its own referendum on the issue, with the chance for readers to fill in