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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York’s cycling paramedic was first on the scene when a member of the Evening Press pressroom staff was taken ill and needed emergency treatment. Paramedic Mark Inman covers 20 to 30 miles a day patrolling York’s streets on his bike,
The Norwich Evening News’ Quidenham Children’s Hospice appeal has hit its target. With the help of its readers, the newspaper has managed to raise £50,000 in just 10 months to help terminally ill children and their families. All the money
The third annual Brentwood Banquet, hosted by the Brentwood Gazette series, has raised more than £14,000 for the Rhys Daniels Trust Home From Home Appeal. More than 230 guests, including stars from sport and entertainment, attended the event to raise
The Western Morning News has come under attack from animal health minister Elliot Morley. He focused on the paper’s criticism of John Prescott’s claims that Labour had regenerated the Cornish economy. And he also took his chance to take a
The Leicester Mercury is running a mass survey into crime and punishment, and is asking: should life mean life for convicted murderers? The survey is part of the Great Crime Debate which the paper has been running for the last
Broadcaster and publisher Andrew Neil has received an honorary degree from the University of Paisley. The journalist, best known for his tenure as editor of the Sunday Times, began his career at the Paisley Daily Express. He was given a
A project about to preserve old newspapers for future generations is to outline the value of its work. Newsplan, which is in the process of microfilming more than 3,500 local papers, will explain what the collection can offer to the
A well-known Yorkshire court reporter has died aged 81. Ray Linfoot, formerly of The Star, Sheffield, covered the city’s crime scene for 22 years until his retirement in 1985. Former editor Michael Corner said: “Ray was very much a journalist
The Aberdeen Evening Express’s fundraising scheme, Children 2000, has come to another successful end after raising more than £27,000 for local groups. Readers of the Evening Express have collected 14m tokens printed in the paper for this year’s campaign, and
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
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
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
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
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
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
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