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The Derbyshire Beehive online community is celebrating the launch of its 300th site. The addition is also the first site to focus on a research project, telling the story of Derby Millennium Network, launched in 1999 to bring together black
The Society of Editors website has been renamed with the new address of www.societyofeditors.org. The change puts the society’s name “up front” and the new .org extension better reflects its status. Executive director Bob Satchwell said: “The society is open
The Internet audience of a regional paper has agreed that toy weapons should be available for sale in Suffolk. The poll, carried out by the Evening Star www.eveningstar.co.uk, found 67 per cent of readers who took part said “yes”. The
A mother and daughter who lost touch after one of them moved to America have been brought back together through the Evening Star’s Finding Friends website. Pat Burrow’s daughter Lesley moved abroad with her serviceman husband 13 years ago –
Contributers to the Hackwriters website run by Falmouth College writing students have been shortlisted for a clutch of industry awards. Writer Rosemary North and editor Sam North are both in with a chance of being named Skylines Magazine Travel Writer
Scottish Provincial Press has launched an online guide to the north of Scotland in the shape of a new website Hi-lands.com. The site, which was developed entirely in-house over the past six months, includes the latest local and world news
A one-day e-business event run by the Express & Star was supported by a 16-page colour supplement in the newspaper and a dedicated website at westmidlands.com. The “e-vent” was to promote the benefits of e-commerce to all types of business
Every non-profit making organisation in Nottinghamshire is being offered the key to unlock the power of the internet. The Nottingham Evening Post has launched the Beehive Community Network to provide a free Internet site to every voluntary and non-profit organisation
A council’s website is carrying its own “What the papers don’t say column to set the record straight when it feels the local press has got it wrong. Camden Council, in London, is using the device to help ensure the
The Bath Chronicle’s website Thisisbath has recorded its highest weekly total of page impressions since it was launched three years ago. Last week it achieved a record 88,758 page impressions – 16,000 higher than the previous record total achieved in
Internet staff at the Rutland & Stamford Mercury have created a new website to cover the 2001 Air Tattoo at RAF Cottesmore. The event is the largest military air show in the world and should attract more than 250,000 visitors
Internet users can see the Shropshire Star putting its post-election edition to bed in the early hours of Friday morning. Video footage of the reporting and production team getting the paper out in time for people to buy one on
Internet director of the Tindle Newspapers Group, Rob Fogwill, has been appointed technical support manager for the Adfast digital artwork transmission system. He will head up the sales and support team from July 2. He will provide upload and download
Northcliffe Electronic Publishing has selected a tool called Autonomy to enhance the ‘This Is…’ regional community portals. Autonomy enables visitors to the sites to navigate their way around by automatically prompting news and stories similar or relevant to the one
Veteran Derby journalist Jim Brennan has his finger on the political pulse and will share a compilation of news and views through his new web venture, Fairplay UK. The online newsletter is a sideways look at UK politics, the first
The onset of summer – and an impending General Election – has prompted the launch and development of several new websites from Northcliffe Electronic Publishing in the Midlands. Four new NEP sites will carry all the local election news from