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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.)

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Garden duo bid for TV stardom

A green-fingered duo who write weekly gardening tips for two South West newspapers are making a bid for TV stardom. Bob Purnell and Nigel North, whose column appears in the Bristol Evening Post and Western Daily Press, have already helped

Grimsby TV launched

A television news service, dedicated to Grimsby and Cleethorpes and spearheaded by the Grimsby Telegraph, has been officially launched. Around 70,000 people across North East and North Lincolnshire will be able to access Grimsby TV (GTV), a joint venture between

New book for Mercury writer

The Leicester Mercury’s Hajra Makda is hoping to tickle taste buds while also dispelling a few myths about Asian food with her new book. Hajra, food writer for the paper, says many people think Asian sweets and deserts are sticky

Star man misses out on jackpot

Shropshire Star man Andy Maxwell has missed out on the £5,500 top prize on daytime quiz show The Biggest Game in Town. Andy, a circulation rep for the Star at Ketley, beat two other contestants in a general knowledge quiz

Globe begins a cash handout

The Wirral Globe has been entrusted to distribute a reader’s cash among local charities. An anonymous donor handed over the £4,000 and hoped the paper – with its contacts and local knowledge, would be best placed to decide which good

Plea to Lord Chancellor

Eight pages of the Express & Echo have been devoted to an appeal to the Government to hand Exeter the honour of its own Lord Mayor. The paper, in its appeal, recognises there are several important criteria to be met

Journal relieves farmers' stress

The North Devon Journal teamed up with a local tourist attraction to host a day packed with family fun as an antidote to the doom and despair of the foot and mouth crisis. The event was for farmers and their

News in brief

A new men’s magazine Code hit the news stands this week with former West Briton leisure editor Nigel Pengelly at the helm.The project has created 10 jobs and editor Nigel describes the magazine as a publication for the “informed man

Media Ball raises £7,000

More than £7,000 has been raised at Torquay’s first media Ball, sponsored by the Herald Express. The event was held at the town’s Imperial Hotel and organised by the chamber of trade. The money raised will be split between Christmas

"Larging it" with Wendy

She may not (quite) be Gwyneth Paltrow but the Derby Telegraph’s Wendy Roberts knows exactly how the star felt in her latest film role, donning a “fat suit” to give the illusion of piling on the pounds.Gwyneth appears in Shallow

Has Helen turned her back on the Argus?

It seems that Big Brother star Helen Adams may have turned her back on the newspaper that helped save her from eviction. During Helen’s nine weeks in the house the South Wales Argus ran a campaign supporting Helen and urging

Mail to help tackle health service problems

The Hull Daily Mail is to work with the Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust to improve medical services. The move comes after the paper received a series of complaints about Hull Royal Infirmary, sparked by the story of

Papers open steel cash fund

Two papers in South Wales are teaming up to raise cash to help the families of victims of the explosion at Port Talbot’s steel plant. The South Wales Evening Post, and its sister paper The Courier, have set up the

Scribe turns film-maker for movie projects

A reporter from the Sussex Express is ‘moonlighting’ in a second career – as a successful short film-maker. Chris Pollard is working with his brother Simon on their latest movie project, a five-minute flick to promote Seaford Head Community College

Star man clocks up 30 years

Journalist Barrie Thomas is celebrating his 30 years at the Llanelli Star. Barrie, who is now sports editor for the paper, joined the Star in 1971 as a trainee reporter. With a keen interest in sport, he immediately started to

Herald article chosen by CPS

An article from the Plymouth Evening Herald which tells the story of a woman’s struggle against years of domestic violence, is to be used in a Crown Prosecution Service magazine. By feature writer Martin Freeman, the report first appeared in