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The funeral of former Belfast Telegraph worker Thomas Carroll has taken place. The father-of-five, known as Tony, died on Wednesday, aged 82, after an illness. He had worked for the Telegraph in various roles for six decades. His first job
Our weekly news round-up… A website that provides support and advice for bullied children has been commended in the Online Communities section at the New Statesman/BT New Media Awards 2001.Bullying Online, which is also a charity, is run by Yorkshire
The Express and Echo has branded Exeter City Council’s decision to resurrect plans to charge for residents’ parking permits as “modern-day highway robbery”. The council was forced to abandon moves for the £10 charge earlier in the year after objections
Just one week after the Saffron Walden Reporter asked ‘Please Mr Postman why can’t you get it right?’, the Royal Mail has delivered. Earlier this month the paper revealed problems with the mail delivery service in and around Saffron Walden,
A friendly bear from Wycombe Hospital has been helping out at the Bucks Free Press and South Bucks Star. Nosey the Bear’s ‘nose for a story’ prompted Star editor Steve Cohen to take a backseat while the furry trainee reporter
The News Shopper in Kent has teamed up with one of the region’s top football teams. The newspaper has signed a two-year-deal backing Charlton Athletic’s work with football-mad youngsters. The deal, worth £40,000, will see the News Shopper backing the
Eight hundred staff will be lost from Trinity Mirror over the next three years, with its regional newspaper industry likely to be the hardest hit. The company announced the news alongside its latest set of interim results, which showed gains
The Guardian Media Group, parent company of the Manchester Evening News, is to sponsor next year’s Commonwealth Games. The sponsorship was announced with a party for staff outside the Evening News offices. As well as direct sponsorship, the Evening News
A kind-hearted Exeter man has arranged a fund-raising event for the Express & Echo’s latest appeal – despite being told he may only have weeks to live. Former serviceman Pete Kirkham has lung cancer and doctors have told him there
Rock star Joe Cocker is coming to the aid of Bury FC – with the help of Matlock Mercury editor Don Hale. Don, a former player with Bury FC – who are nicknamed the Shakers – has released a previously
A topping out ceremony has been held at the Scottish Media Group’s new printing plant. The £36million development at Cambuslang Investment Park will provide state-of-the-art printing facilities for the Glasgow Evening Times and The Herald. The plant will contain two
Two journalism students from Coombeshead College in Newton Abbot have had their first taste as working newspaper editors, on a Teignmouth school newspaper. Christine Fullam and Emma Crome were invited to edit Newslink, the newspaper of Our Lady and St
A Hinckley councillor has claimed that the results of a local paper’s reader survey could stop a major supermarket chain from setting up shop in the town. The Hinckley Times received 560 survey forms from its readers concerned about the
For the second time in two weeks, a railways boss has spoken exclusively to the Plymouth Evening Herald and admitted that the South West is being let down by its rail service. Railtrack director John Curley has taken on board
The North Devon Journal is offering youngsters affected by the troubles of the foot-and-mouth crisis a tonic, by throwing a party. The newspaper is laying on a free ‘Grand Day Out’ together with The Big Sheep animal centre and Let’s
Hull Daily Mail readers are being given the chance to meet two soccer greats and raise money for the paper’s Buses for the Blind appeal at the same time. Former Chelsea and England star Peter Osgood is topping the bill