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The York Evening Press has dispatched a reporter to Greece to keep readers up-to-date on the continuing plight of plane-spotter Andy Jenkins. The York man is one of 12 people being held by the Greek authorities and faces espionage charges
Remember Emma Snedden? She’s the Lincolnshire Echo reporter who took 13 attempts to pass her driving test.Now she’s a fully-fledged driver, the Echo sent her to Sheffield to try a virtual-reality experience that is soon to become part of the
An editor is challenging a Department of Health decision to keep the media out of an inquiry into a disgraced doctor. The Kentish Express is providing evidence for the judicial review after it found out that the Government wants to
The Echo is offering a £1,000 reward to help bring the man who attacked a Sunderland pensioner to justice.The 87-year-old was beaten and sexually assaulted in her own home and has been too ill to be interviewed by detectives. A
A political writer well-known in the corridors of Westminster has died, aged 86. David Rosser was the political editor of the Western Mail for almost 35 years. He worked at weekly and evening newspapers in his home town of Llanelli,
The Evening Star scooped the nationals with an intriguing story about the Government’s education standards. It got hold of a letter from Tony Blair wishing Ipswich Labour candidate Chris Mole well in yesterday’s by-election – but it unfortunately showed that
The purchase of two East Kent radio stations by Kent Messenger GroupNewspapers has been cleared by the Radio Authority. Kent Messenger Group’s acquisition of CTFM, Canterbury, and Neptune Radio, serving Folkestone and Dover, in September, triggered a public interest test
A York travel agent has flown to New York with copies of the Evening Press to help boost the morale among the shocked citizens. Graham Harris was keen to take a message of hope from York residents to their American
Two weekly newspapers have helped to bring readers together with long lost family members. The Bury Times helped reunite six brothers and sisters who had not seen each other for 46 years after one of them contacted the paper. Margaret
Westcountry Publications Limited has appointed a new managing director. The company publishes the Exeter Express & Echo, Plymouth Evening Herald, Torquay Herald Express and the Western Morning News. Duncan Currall, (51), will join the company from South West Wales Publications
Editors have been asked for their help to alleviate public fears over biological attacks on the UK. It has been revealed there were 1,500 alerts of biological attacks in the UK between October 9 and 26 – and none proved
The Citizen is asking its readers to help make sure an influx of baby hedgehogs at a Gloucestershire wildlife centre live through the winter. More than 40 cold and underweight ‘hoglets’ have been taken to Gloucester’s Wildlife Rescue Centre to
A £17m print plant has been opened to print the Bolton Evening News, Lancashire Evening Telegraph, Bury Times and 16 other Lancashire and Cheshire titles. The owner, Newsquest, hosted a reception to mark the occasion. The press, at Wingates, replaces
Evening Press sub Bob Lawrence has clocked up a quarter of a century with the York paper. Bob joined the then Yorkshire Evening Press in 1976, when a pint of beer cost 7.5p a pint – though as a teetotaller
You could slice the tension at the Tamworth Herald with a knife. The paper published a four-page souvenir pull-out to mark the paper’s sponsorship of Tamworth Town against Rochdale in the first round of the FA Cup. But after securing
Yorkshire Evening Post sub editor Liz Carnell, who is also the director of the charity Bullying Online at www.bullying.co.uk was a speaker at this week’s national Kidscape conference in London. She spoke to an audience of 300, including teachers, police