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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Development of the Belfast Telegraph titles is on the agenda after clearance was given for Independent News & Media to buy the group from Trinity Mirror. The purchase has been approved by Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Stephen
Mark Douglas Home, the new editor of the Glasgow Herald is being welcomed as a “real catch” by the company. He is currently editor of Sunday Times Scotland and will join current Herald editor Harry Reid for an extended hand-over
There are times when horror and embarrassment sweep over you all at once. For years to come, such moments will make you cringe – and giggle. It happened to Grimsby Evening Telegraph reporter Dave Speck. And being a reporter, he
Guardian Media Group is the latest potential bidder to enter the race to buy Regional Independent Media. RIM is already the subject of interest from media group Gannett, which owns Newsquest, and from Johnston Press. All three groups have had
A charity that’s been adopted as the Mansfield Chad’s charity for 2000 has just had its best month yet. Donations during the last month have totalled £31,000, more than half the monthly cost of keeping the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air
A new memorial to honour Lanarkshire’s 14 winners of the Victoria Cross is set to be built by the end of this year – thanks to generous readers who’ve backed a Hamilton Advertiser appeal. The paper wants to put up
The funeral of Eastern Daily Press photographer Brian Waite is to be held tomorrow (Thursday) in King’s Lynn. Brian (50) died while on an assignment for his newspaper on May 31 when he suffered a heart attack. The funeral will
One former Derby Evening Telegraph journalist is following another as business editor of the award-winning Yorkshire Post. David Parkin (29), London editor of the Western Mail, will succeed Peter Curtain, who is joining the new Scottish business paper, Business a.m.,
Cinema-goers in Devizes are hoping a petition organised by the Gazette and Herald will save their local picture house. The paper’s Save Our Cinema campaign petition, which has been signed by almost 900 people from the town, has been sent
Geoff Elliott admits he’ll be “very quickly learning about academe” when he takes on his latest challenge. “It’s not a world I know much about really,” admitted the the former editor of The News, Portsmouth, who has been appointed head
A photographer was assaulted by a defendant as he tried to take a snatch picture outside court. Kevin Davies had just been fined and ordered to pay costs and compensation for causing unnecessary suffering to two dogs. Derby Evening Telegraph
Young stars of the South Wales Evening Post’s charity show, The Best Is Yet To Come, are heading for London’s West End. Some 150 entertainers, aged four to 18, will perform at Her Majesty’s Theatre in the Haymarket on August
Jargon-busting at the Bolton Evening News is making life easier for readers. Reporters are decoding the bureaucratic language of Bolton Council and explaining reports from secret meetings in plain English. Two recent reports from the authority highlighted the flowery language
We’ve all been there – asking that question that makes you want the ground to open up and swallow you. The following “office quotes” were supplied by Jeremy Condliffe, editor of the Congleton Chronicle series: “I used to work at
Almost 1,000 readers took part in a Devon weekly’s poll on the future of hunting. Sixty-nine per cent of those who responded to the Mid Devon Gazette’s survey voted to retain the status quo, showing the local importance of hunting
Residents of a Leicestershire village have found themselves uncomfortably in the media spotlight as the national press followed up a Leicester Mercury exclusive. The rural location for press and TV crews was Queniborough. The reason? Mad cow disease – or