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.)
If you are looking for a story about a particular newspaper or media company, you can use the links in the ‘Main News Links’ list to the right to take you to our directory pages. Here you will find indexes of all the stories we have written about each of the newspapers and media companies featured on the site.
A newspaper intervened when it found that a 15-year-old boy had been sleeping on the streets for two weeks following a family breakdown. The youngster was desperate for a home with foster parents and had even slept on the doorstep
Hundreds of Liverpool Echo readers have come forward to take part in the paper’s Big Picture Appeal to raise money for Alder Hey hospital. In return for a donation, they get a photo of themselves placed on a huge mock-up
Regional press news – this story updated 23.6.2000 News In Brief from around the regions by HoldTheFrontPage staff THE BEAUTIFUL GAME: Football fans can now log on and share poetic thoughts on a new Internet site. The Gloucestershire Echo reported
Regional press news – this story published 19.6.2000 Staff changes at Portsmouth title by HoldTheFrontPage staff Staff changes and the launch of two weekly supplements have been announced at The News, Portsmouth. A 12-page sports insert will be published on
How do women cope with the rival demands of their careers and children – and how do newspaper bosses treat them? A new research project by Women In Journalism aims to find the answer. Journalist Anne Perkins is launching the
From Monday June 26 there will be more than ever to read on HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk – plus a stylish new look. Next week, we start full coverage of the UK’s regional weekly press – and editors, journalists, photographers and sub-editors from
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