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.
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Staff at media company SMG are being consulted over voluntary redundancies as the firm looks at cutting employee numbers. SMG, which changed its name from Scottish Media Group last year publishes three newspapers – The Herald, the Sunday Herald and
A special edition of the Plymouth Evening Herald has stopped a 22,500-ton aircraft carrier in its tracks. A ‘good luck’ edition of the paper despatched to front-line forces taking part in Exercise Saif Sareea so impressed commanding officer of HMS
Hundreds of letters of support written by Lincolnshire Echo readers for the grieving families of victims of the American terrorist attacks have been delivered to the American Embassy in London. Following the launch of the Echo’s Letter to America campaign,
Just four months after its purchase by Newsquest, the Wandsworth Borough News is to be relaunched on November 2. South London Guardian, part of Newsquest (London), has announced a range of initiatives for the 120-year-old newspaper as the first stage
Children in an education action zone are to benefit from reading a Newspaper Big Book to help their literacy. It was produced with the help or staff from the Leigh Reporter in a joint venture with teachers and business in
The Stornoway Gazette and West Coast Advertiser, the Galloway Gazette, Stranraer News and Carrick Gazette could be transferred from Regional Independent media to Gannett UK. The companies have applied to the Trade and Industry Secretary for transfer of the titles
A charity This Is Bristol Spectacular is to host music acts from a variety of backgrounds as the Evening Post raises cash for local children. The event is a collaboration between The Event Management Company, energy company SWEB, Bristol City
Colin Moth has retired from the Essex Chronicle after 49 years with the company. Past and present staff and directors from the paper gathered to wish Colin well at his retirement presentation, where he received a digital camera. Colin began
The Torquay Herald Express crime campaign Counter Attack, which features a weekly ‘Rogues Gallery’, is becoming a victim of its own success. Police say criminals are staying away from business premises covered by CCTV cameras following the launch of the
The Lennox Herald has celebrated its 150th anniversary. To mark the event a celebratory dinner was held in Dumbarton Football Club’s Strathclyde Homes stadium function suite, when the guests were piped in by Dumbarton and District Pipe Band. Charles Birrell,
New Brighton University students were handed free copies of The Argus at a fair to welcome them. Two thousand papers were given away at the event, held in the university’s Cockcroft Building on Wednesday. More than 150 stalls were set
As the world saw journalist Yvonne Ridley emerge from a car at the border with Pakistan after ten days in captivity, her friends from the regional press around Britain also watched the story unfold. The 43-year-old mum was seized by
A manufacturing company in Yorkshire has been inundated with job applications after the Evening Post stepped in to help its recruitment search. Bosses at Otley paper-making company Garnett had been left scratching their heads after receiving very little response when
Former South Wales Argus journalist Tom Ellis has died suddenly at the age of 73. He was returning to his Newport home after collecting a copy of the Argus from his local newsagent when he collapsed. He was a hugely
An evening paper and its website are throwing themselves into the football fever generated by England’s improving World Cup bid by showing readers how to master all those fancy football tricks. Logging into the Norwich Evening News site at www.eveningnews24.co.uk
David Riley, a former Yorkshire Evening Post feature writer, has died. He was 58 and had been ill. He began his career in journalism in 1959 as a trainee reporter on the Dewsbury Reporter. He also worked at the Huddersfield