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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Life as a journalist may not always be a bed of roses, but reporter Katherine Jacques might just appreciate the comfortable surroundings of her newspaper’s office a little more after taking up the challenge to become an Army cadet for
Nearly 30,000 people turned out for Yorkshire’s last surviving air spectacular, an event sponsored by the Evening Press at York. The Red Arrows were the stars of the two-day Great Yorkshire Air Show over the former wartime Elvington Airfield outside
Johnston Press is expecting to continue to buck the downward economic trend and is predicting a successful year after revealing increased half-year profits. The company has announced a 14.3 per cent increase in profits before exceptional items, thanks in part
Robert Lloyd, editor of the Llanelli Star, has jetted off to North America to accompany Cor Meibion, Llanelli’s renowned male voice choir, on a three-week tour. The award-winning choir, one of the leading male choirs in Britain, is currently touring
New guidelines on reporting restrictions in magistrates courts gave the basis for a successful challenge of an order to ban naming a baby in a cruelty case. North West Evening Mail reporter Suzanne Murphy was in court to challenge an
The special guest at the Huddersfield Examiner’s Literary Luncheon this year is the charismatic cricket umpire David Shepherd. He recently umpired the fourth Ashes Test Match between England and Australia at Headingly – and will return to Yorkshire for the
Staff at Taunton Newspapers in Somerset are feeling justifiably proud after beating their colleagues on sister titles in a charity raft race on thehistoric moat surrounding the Bishops Palace in Wells. The all-women team of four – led by MD
Budding newshounds from around Yorkshire have again been making their own headlines as part of the Hull Daily Mail’s Kids’ Journalist Club. A group of news-hungry youngsters gave up part of their summer holiday to visit the Mail offices and
Two journalists from the Melton Times seized the perfect opportunity for a night of heavy drinking – for the sake of investigative journalism, of course! The paper’s Mike Roberts and Claire Long decided to engage in a scientific experiment, of
Information obtained by the Aberdeen Evening Express led Grampian Police to investigate a charity organiser.
Crime clusters around York have been mapped out in a link-up between the police and local press. The idea is to warn people in the city that if they think “it won’t happen to me”, they could well be wrong.
A newspaper appeal has successfully brought two long-lost friends in touch with each other after more than 30 years apart. The Wolverhampton Express and Star’s We’ll Meet Again column featured the plea of David Phillips trying to find his childhood
South Wales Argus reporter Iwan Davies scooped a world exclusive when he went to interview Ian Brewster, the head of crime scenes for Gwent Police. Originally, Iwan had planned to write about him being the first forensic scientist to be
John Holmes, who worked at the Huddersfield Daily Examiner for 34 years, has retired. Mr Holmes joined the paper in 1960, briefly working as a Linotype operator, producing metal type. In 1967 he rejoined the paper as a compositor, before
The editor of the Rugby Advertiser has asked the paper’s readers to make their opinions known on whether Rugby should have its own Primary Care Trust. The official decision on the matter will result in either Rugby having its own
The Cornish Guardian is claiming a picture exclusive with the first shot of Euan Blair and his new ‘girlfriend’. The picture was taken as the Blair family visited Fowey on the British leg of their much-publicised summer holiday. The paper