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.
An art gallery and library in Brighouse, near Halifax, look set to be saved from closure thanks to a novice reporter on a work experience placement at the Brighouse Echo. Ed Howker, a 20-year-old history student, had hoped the unpaid
Page 1 of 2 As the world watched the full horror of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon unfold; several regional journalists have been telling how they witnessed the terror first hand. One journalist who was
Brave Bristol Evening Post journalists Mel Greenwood and Tom Henry got plastered last week – in the name of art – by ‘life caster’ Simon Broadhead. Simon, a design Technology teacher, works with models from his own home creating plaster
Whitley Bay News Guardian reporter Charlie Burnell joined the British Army for their largest training excercise of the year in the Canadian Prairie. In stark contrast to her own preconceptions of the army, Charlie’s seven-day experience proved to be the
Page 1 of 2 As the Big Issue magazine celebrates 10 years of sales on the streets of Britain, feature writers Wendy Roberts and Simon Burch took to the streets of Derby to experience the highs and lows of selling
Page 1 of 2 A party to mark the official launch of the Argus Appeal 2002 has raised a staggering £38,000. A host of celebrities including former EastEnders actresses Michelle Collins (Cindy Beale) and Carol Harrison (Louise Raymond), TV personality
A fireman who died 90 years ago has received a posthumous commendation for bravery after his story was told in a book by freelance journalist Pat Nurse. Pat’s book, Devils Let Loose, written in conjunction with Lincolnshire researcher Tony Gadd,
A snapshot Eastern Daily Press survey has found more than 80 per cent of licensees support a reform of pub opening times. The survey of 50 licencees in the Norfolk and Suffolk area found the majority of landlords backed the
Gloucester Citizen readers are being urged to tell the Home Secretary if they don’t agree with “soft” sentencing of criminals in the county courts. David Blunkett has been in contact with the paper about his plans to overhaul the criminal
A Romanian orphan who escaped poverty thanks to readers of the South Wales Evening Post is celebrating her tenth birthday. Nicholetta Codreanu’s plight was first featured in the Evening Post in December 1993. A front-page article showed the appalling conditions
More job cuts could soon be made within the Scottish Media Group, with the possibility that some may be made within its three regional newspapers. The group, which owns The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times, Glasgow, has announced its
Page 2 of 2 If anything, the local agenda is more important to us now than at any other time in our history. We are the only organisation with the means and the commitment to source and deliver news about
The successful Argus Appeal has been promised the support of Legal & General for a second year. Now appeal organisers are hoping to eclipse the achievements of the last appeal which raised more than £70,000 for good causes around Sussex.
Celebrations to mark the Examiner’s 150th anniversary have been continuing with a special dinner at Huddersfield Town Hall. The event was attended by 180 guests, including Kirklees Mayor Clr Mohan Sokhal, Last Of The Summer Wine actress Dora Bryan, and
Sue Archer, a former reporter at the Bishops Stortford Citizen, is hoping to raise over £1000 for charity by climbing Western Europe’s highest mountain, Mont Blanc. Sue, along with her husband Tony, aims to climb the mountain in memory of
Kind-hearted readers of the Stoke Sentinel have pledged hundreds of pounds in reward money to help catch thugs who killed a male swan and one of its cygnets. The RSPCA has launched an appeal to find the killers after the