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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A former Evening Post printer who helped announce the start of the Second World War to the people of Nottingham has died aged 85. Gilbert Macklam spent 40 years working as a compositor at the Post’s former home in Forman
We’re all going on a summer holiday – well, more than most other workers it seems. Employment consultants Select Appointments has published its latest survey into salaries and workers’ benefits. And it showed that in 1999, people working in the
The national media spotlight may be focused on the harbour town of Littlehampton, but for the team at the local weekly, life has to go on. Detectives there are co-ordinating the search for eight-year-old Sarah Payne, who went missing near
The publishers of the South Wales Evening Post have been awarded the contract to produce Y Tir (The Land) – the monthly newspaper for the Farmers Union of Wales. South West Wales Publications, which also produces the Llanelli Star and
Two Nottinghamshire journalists will be meeting the public at the county’s premier literary festival this week. Stephen Booth, deputy editor at the Worksop Guardian, is one of the local authors due to appear tonight. The novelist, who writes in his
Bill Brunt has got some advice for wannabe journalists. “Start at the bottom.” And Bill Brunt should be a man to take advice from. He’s done it all, from trainee reporter, photographer to sub editor and editor. And he has
Dads serving at sea with the armed forces had a Father’s Day surprise when hundreds of copies of the Evening Herald, full of loving messages from their children, were delivered to them off the west coast of Africa. The Plymouth
When model and actress Liz Hurley unveiled a new animal exhibit at Chester Zoo, national newspaper snappers were there for the obligatory photo session. After the official opening, Miss Hurley, former partner of film star Hugh Grant and the face
Journalist Judy Theobald is in an enviable position. After years of working in regional newspapers she’s got the job of her dreams at Lincolnshire Life magazine – but has a little sideline that’s still published each week in the Lincolnshire
Talks are under way with more than 40 newspaper staff who are set to lose their jobs at the Lincolnshire Standard Group. LSG was bought by Johnston Publishing earlier this year and the staff cuts are being explained as a
John Allwood, deputy chief executive and chief operating officer of Trinity Mirror has announced he will be leaving the newspaper publishing group at the end of July. Mr Allwood was finance director and then chief executive of Mirror Group until
Day one – stuff it, Neck end only please, And serve it up with bacon, sprouts, Bread sauce, spuds and peas. Day two – slice itInto lovely chunky collops, And serve it up with saladsAnd pickles in nice dollops. Day
Cancer care in Wales is getting a boost from a new appeal by the South Wales Evening Post. Readers have created a fund of £41,000 in just three months. It follows their impressive effort of donating £725,869 for a previous
One of the leading lights in The Northern Echo’s campaign to win recognition for unsung war heroes has died. Maisie White, 92, was a former Aycliffe Angel, one of the women who spent the Second World War working in a
Agriculture and farming reporter Catherine Edwards is leaving the Derby Evening Telegraph for pastures new. The 25-year-old trainee reporter, who joined the DET 12 months ago, starts her job as a news reporter at Raymonds Press Agency in Nottingham on
Aerial photographs of Devon have gone on sale to readers of two local newspapers. The pictures were commissioned to mark the Millennium by the Mid- Devon Gazette and the North Devon Journal. And the titles have published almost 100 of