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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An 11-year-boy whose mother launched an appeal through the Bristol Evening Post to raise money for him to have a life-saving heart operation is recovering after surgery. Brandon Williams was struck down with chest pains after flying from Jamaica to
Business reporter The Gloucestershire Echo (Cheltenham’s four-edition daily) wants a senior reporter to take on the role of business correspondent. You’ll get lots of freedom, plenty of responsibility and stacks of bylines. Apply with CV and some cuttings to Editor,
Senior reporter Make the jump from a weekly and join the 15-strong newsroom of our four-edition daily title in Cheltenham. There’s never a dull moment in the home town of GCHQ and the MP who was attacked with a Samurai
The Nottingham Evening Post has helped to secure the future of a summer playscheme that was in danger of closing. Not enough workers could be recruited to help manage the playscheme run by Broxtowe Borough Council. Despite advertisements, councillors were
Media relations with the police are to come under scrutiny next week as the Society of Editors meets with the Association of Chief Police Officers. Controversial new guidelines on the release of information about accidents have been introduced, which lets
It’s been a fantastic start to life as a tabloid for the staff at the Stirling Observer. The paper was founded as broadsheet in the 1830s but in September last year was relaunched as a tabloid. Two weeks ago it
Residents of the north Yorkshire seaside resort of Scarborough have hit back after vitriolic columnist Victor Lewis-Smith attacked their town. In one of his regular columns for the London Evening Standard, Mr Lewis-Smith condemned Scarborough as being “dismal in season
The parents of a critically ill baby were flooded with offers of help when they appealed in their local paper for a donor to save their daughter’s life. Tiny Hannah Parkins needs a new liver and is fighting for her
A play based on the Bristol Evening Post’s successful Unsung Heroes campaign is now in the hands of writers at a Bristol theatre. Actors are being asked if they want to put on a production based on the real-life stories
The Peterborough Evening Telegraph has been presented with an award in recognition of its support for a charity. Deafblind UK honoured the newspaper with a Deafblind Friendly Award at its annual rally. It was for the Evening Telegraph’s coverage of
Eight new editors have joined the South West region Society of Editors, bringing the total membership there to 30. The recruitment drive and admin work has been carried out by society secretary Anita Syvret, editor of the Gloucestershire Echo. Administrative
Senior reporter Exeter’s evening newspaper, the Express & Echo, has a vacancy for a senior reporter. We are enjoying circulation growth and have won a string of industry awards, based on an agenda driven by hard news and lively human
Former Sun sports reporter Roger Duckworth has died at the age of 60. Mr Duckworth, who was the paper’s Midlands football reporter between 1977 and 1992, died on July 10 at Derby City General Hospital. He lived near Melbourne, Derbyshire
Readers of The Star are being invited to have their say on the naming of city council buildings in Sheffield. New office blocks being built in the city centre have been designed to reflect the beauty of the city and
An award-winning disability magazine produced by Liverpool Echo journalist Tom Dowling has gone live on the Internet. Tom (pictured) has written I can do that – a weekly column on disability issues – since 1983 and, for the past three
Sitting in court, listening to a case was all part of the training for Jeremy King of the Crawley News. The 24-year-old trainee reporter was covering the case of Ernest Horsewell (62), known as Brian, of Grattons Drive, Pound Hill.