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.
Staff from a Somerset newsroom were in fine voice as they enjoyed their annual trip to the local pantomime. Reporters, subs and newsdesk staff from the Weston and Worle News reverted back to their childhood during a performance of Cinderella
Readers of the Liverpool Echo have helped raise nearly £100,000 for a new cancer unit at Alder Hey Hospital. The hospital has issued a big thank you to Echo readers after their overwhelming response to the paper’s Big Picture Appeal.
A £5,000 reward is being offered in the hunt for the killer of Leeds pensioner Edna Slater. The Yorkshire Evening Post put up the cash in a bid to bring in information that might lead to the killer’s arrest and
A ban on identifying a 17-year-old Kosovan who appeared at Nottingham Crown Court was lifted after a legal challenge by the Nottingham Evening Post. Judge Dudley Bennett agreed it would be in the public interest to name Andi Bali when
The sounds of swinging jazz formed the perfect backdrop for the funeral of journalist Alan Smith. The cortege was headed by a marching jazz band that brought a touch of New Orleans to the Midlands as friends and colleagues and
Artist John Wiltshire is to set up camp at the Tunbridge Wells Courier to capture the day-to-day life of the paper. As part of the national Year of the Artist festival, John will spend several months producing pieces of work
Page 1 of 2 Sports reporter Andy Tilley (pictured left) spent his 30th birthday making front page news for his paper when he helped save a teenager from drowning. Andy, who works for the Burton Mail, was walking beside the
Readers of the Observer newspaper have chosen Matlock Mercury editor Don Hale as their man of the year. Mr Hale, (48), has been handed the prestigious title in recognition of his work on the Stephen Downing case. Thousands of the
The Human Rights Act has helped improve openness in one local council at least. The leader of Congleton Borough Council has been investigated for breaking the local government codes of conduct. A report was drawn up by an independent investigator.
Page 1 of 4 I have a confession. I’m the sucker who gambled everything on black and lost.This is my story… When the Leicester Mercury asked me to spend a night in a casino and report back I jumped at
Warwickshire police plan to meet editors this month to discuss changes in their policy regarding the release of information about road accidents. Alan Kirby, editor of the Coventry Evening Telegraph, and Peter Aengenheister, editor of the Rugby Advertiser, are two
Henry Clother, who taught generations of aspiring journalists their art, has died. He spent 13 years in charge of the newspaper course at City University’s graduate centre for journalism in London, after a career in newspapers which included spells at
The Cornishman’s web site can boast a truly global audience. At a recent council meeting in Marazion, a reader revealed how friends in Zimbabwe had been logging on to find out the latest news on the area. Her comments came
The Plymouth Evening’s Herald’s Jayne Freer joined sailor Richard Tudor on a visit to an historic cemetery – where he reflected on his own scrape with death. The reporter travelled to Halifax, Canada, to cover the story of the Team
More than 1,300 Christmas presents were given to needy children in Tunbridge Wells thanks to an appeal backed by the Kent and Sussex Courier. The gifts were distributed to 350 youngsters nominated by social services and other care agencies through
Readers can now get their Evening Post in ‘Paradise’. How? Well, the BBC has drafted in former pitman Adrian Loftus to add an authentic touch to the one-off show Paradise being partly filmed on location in Nottingham.The producers called on