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.
A website that provides support and advice for bullied children has launched a new section to help them stay safe in cyberspace. The Internet safety section is part of www.bullying.co.uk, run by Liz Carnell, a sub-editor at the Yorkshire Evening
The Burton Mail has launched a bold new web presence. The Staffordshire evening paper can be found online at www.burtonmail.co.uk. The site – billed as a gateway to the community – takes in daily news from the Mail and hosts
The Yorkshire Post is celebrating the success of its website, which has seen the number of visitors double since its relaunch earlier this year. Statistics compiled by Regional Interactive Media, which operates the website on behalf of the Yorkshire Post,
A new website has been launched to bring the news in Cornwall to Cornish speakers around the world. Freelance journalist and PR consultant Matthew Clarke, who runs the new venture, has set the site up entirely in Cornish. He said:
The Boston Standard’s website, launched only a few months ago, has undergone a revamp to boost its appeal to the worldwide audience. The Lincolnshire newspaper’s original website was to transmit news and sports stories to people in Boston, its surrounding
The Hull Daily Mail’s Beehive Community Network now has more than 500 sites – making it the country’s biggest. The Beehive, part of the Mail’s website, gives non-profit organisations with no in-depth knowledge of the World Wide Web the chance
The Derbyshire Beehive Community Network has published its 500th site – the beehive site of hope. The site has been created as a tribute to all those affected by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon
The Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph’s Beehive Community Network has published its 100th site. The Summer Starz Lifestyle Project, a team of five school friends, won a £20 prize for becoming the 100th site on the Scunthorpe Beehive – and promptly spent
Dave Hughes, a former Linotype operator for the Yorkshire Evening Press, has launched his own website. The site is aimed at bringing together people with an interest in the Linotype machine, such as former lino operators, or for people with
A newspaper website has set up a special section to mark the creation of a garden in memory of the murdered BBC TV presenter Jill Dando. She started her career at the Weston & Somerset Mercury, where her brother Nigel,
The Newark Advertiser is hoping to identify a man who attacked a mentally ill man in his home before robbing him, by running CCTV footage on its website. Police have provided the Advertiser with 90 seconds of police surveillance film
You can now get news from more than 430 weekly newspapers online through Holdthefrontpage.co.uk. We’ve updated our index of online weekly papers from around the country and coverage now stretches from Penzance to John O’Groats – and as far as
A roving webcam was due to deliver an Internet first for Shropshirestar.com today as it sent a record of the Shrewsbury Flower Show to computer screens around the world. Internet editor Mark Waugh commandeered a laptop, web cam and the
A community Internet network is celebrating its 100th web page. The Beehive – part of the Evening Post’s This is Bristol website is making it possible for organisations with no in-depth knowledge of the world wide web to get their
The Gloucester Citizen is discovering it has dedicated readers all over the world thanks to its website, thisisgloucestershire.co.uk. The paper has heard from readers from Australia, the United States and the Outer Hebrides in recent weeks, giving their view on
The Beehive Community Network for Gloucestershire, which provides free websites for charities and voluntary groups, has announced a sponsorship agreement with the county’s leading grant giving body. Barnwood House Trust has signed a 12-month deal to sponsor the Charities and