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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Regional press news – this story published 17.6.2000 Reporter killed in car crash by HoldTheFrontPage staff Bournemouth Daily Echo sports reporter Jon Andress has been killed in a head-on car smash on his way home from a golfing assignment in
Patrick Astill’s confession about falling for “urban myths” – to read it click here – prompted this message about a similar embarrassment from Caroline Jenkinson: At the Evening News in Norwich, we always listen to Radio Norfolk in themorning just
This story published 16.6.2000 My secret calls from Prince Edward Cambridge Evening News deputy editor Peter Wells has announced that he is to retire early after 35 years in journalism. Here, he recalls the special relationship he forged with a
Regional press news – this story published 17.6.2000 Prizes for hard-working pupils by HoldTheFrontPage staff Children who do well at school are being rewarded with cash vouchers to spend on computer goodies by their local paper. The Hull Daily Mail
Regional press news – this story published 17.6.2000 Under cover story brings results by HoldTheFrontPage staff Four thousand new sheets are going into circulation at a hospital after a local paper revealed a severe shortage. The linen crisis at Gloucestershire
Regional press news – this story published 19.6.2000 Not my idea of a perfect day One of the great privileges of being a journalist is that you can step into someone else’s world in the comforting knowledge that you don’t
Regional press news – this story published 17.6.2000 Dunkirk spirit gets the news home Covering an event that attracts worldwide media attention is nerve-wracking enough – without being in a foreign country on your first overseas assigment and at the
Elaine Pritchard, of HoldTheFrontPage, is spending this week in her pajamas. But much as she loves a lie-in, this isn’t an act of laziness. It’s the lure of the theatre, dahh-ling! Elaine is in the cast of the 1950s comedy
Regional press news – this story updated 14.6.2000 Printing manager retires with memories of reel car trouble by HoldTheFrontPage staff Putting a rather large dent in the roof of the editor’s car was one of the golden moments recalled by
Regional press news – this story published 15.6.2000 Echo staff mourn ex-colleague by HoldTheFrontPage staff Retired Lincolnshire Echo computer manager Vic Haywood has died after suffering from motor neurone disease. The former magistrate and Salvation Army member had worked for
Regional press news – this story updated 16.6.2000 Artist bring court scenes to life by HoldTheFrontPage staff Elizabeth Cook has been at the heart of some of the country’s most notorious criminal trials. She’s been in the same room as
Regional press news – this story updated 16.6.2000 Reporter covers ‘unique’ hearing in chambers by HoldTheFrontPage staff Reporter John Davies may have helped to make British legal history during a visit to Bradford Crown Court this week. He was the
Regional press news – this story updated 16.6.2000 Family saved from cold home by HoldTheFrontPage staff Swift work by the Nottingham Evening Post saved a mum-of-three from having to live in a cold and empty house. She was due to
Regional press news – this story updated 16.6.2000 Death of Telegraph veteran by HoldTheFrontPage staff Former Belfast Telegraph chief sub-editor Sam McMurray has died. He was attending a service at Portstewart Presbyterian Church on Tuesday when he collapsed. Mr McMurray,
Readers of the Liverpool Echo may have been confused if they’d seen different editions of the paper recently. Colour pages were being moved from edition to edition between print runs as part of fine-tuning the paper’s £10m worth of new
Regional press news – this story updated 15.6.2000 News In Brief from around the regions by HoldTheFrontPage staff FUN FOOD: Crab ice cream, tobacco-flavoured liqueurs and inside-out baked Alaska – they’re all on the menu at Bristol University, where scientists