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The Lynn News has been fined almost £7,000 for exposing its staff to asbestos while air conditioning work was carried out at its King’s Lynn offices. The paper’s parent company Anglia Newspapers pleaded guilty to three charges under health and
For the Matlock Mercury, the final piece of the jigsaw came together this week when Stephen Downing’s murder conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal. The Matlock paper has been covering the case closely since 1995, when it ran
The Princess Royal is to visit this year’s KM Chatham Navy Days at the height of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee celebrations in what is being seen as a coup for the organisers. Princess Anne will attend the Kent Messenger Group-sponsored
The Belper News has seen the end of an era, with the Derbyshire weekly no longer giving away free copies. Some villages had received complimentary copies of the paper since the early 1970s and the cover price of 22p elsewhere
Sunday Post editor David Pollington has been appointed as a new member of the Press Complaints Commission. Announcing the appointment, PCC chairman Lord Wakeham said: “That the Commission works so well is as a result of the interaction between lay
A database of newspaper sections and supplements has been set up to help advertisers target their audience. The free online service has been launched by The Newspaper Society. The new database is accessible through www.planregionalpress.co.uk and details more than 3,500
Profits and turnover are both up at Daily Mail General Trust, which owns the Northcliffe group of regional newspapers. Its annual report revealed overall turnover of £1,963m – up six per cent – and a profit of £177.5m before tax.
A loan company that was exposed by the Manchester Evening News – for targeting the poor and then keeping them hanging on £1-a-minute premium phone calls – has been fined £1,000 by phone watchdogs.More than 45 people complained to the
Two former Blackpool Gazette veterans, who clocked up almost 100 years service between them, have died. Herbert Cockell, who joined the paper in 1934 as a publisher’s assistant and helped publish the paper for almost 50 years, died aged 82.
A new printing press for Trinity Mirror’s Welsh papers will be operational in Cardiff by the end of the year. The new press will be capable of running out 70,000 copies per hour, and will be housed in a new
More than 50 members of the NUJ at Newsquest (Bradford) offices were today due to take strike action in protest at a 2.5 per cent pay offer. Group offices, including the Telegraph & Argus in central Bradford, the Keighley News
The manageress of a gentleman’s club has been ordered to pay £4,000 after being exposed in an undercover Sunday Mercury investigation. She was prosecuted after Mercury reporter Simon Mowbray was offered sex and a massage while posing as a client
Several senior appointments have been announced at Northcliffe Newspapers. The moves will see former editor Alex Leys become managing director of the Nottingham Evening Post. Alex’s track record includes editorships of the Lincolnshire Echo, Derby Evening Telegraph and Leicester Mercury
Pickets were on duty from 6.30am yesterday as 48 journalists stayed away from work at Newsquest (Bradford) in protest at a 2.5 per cent pay offer. The action centered on the Telegraph & Argus in central Bradford, the Keighley News
Sentinel Sunday, the Stoke-on-Trent based broadsheet launched less than two years ago, is to appoint its first dedicated news editor. The paper, which is staffed by journalists on the Sentinel’s daily title, has won widespread praise from the industry and
Editor Peter Barron found himself having to make an impromptu speech in front of the Prime Minister at a Downing Street reception this week. Along with other editors from the regional press, he had been invited along to meet the