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 Carlisle doctor gave an exclusive interview to local evening paper the News & Star following the announcement that he was NOT going to face a manslaughter charge following the death of a patient from a methadone overdose. The News
A newspaper is urging readers to nominate the idlest person they know for an award. The Grimsby Telegraph has launched a search for Couch Potato 2000 in a competiton run in conjunction with fish and chip shop chain Ramsden’s. “Does
An appeal in the Pure Nostalgia column edited by Geoff Worrall in the Exeter Express & Echo has come up trumps in the hunt for a hero. The paper published a photo of an “unknown” soldier – whose picture was
The evening paper in Ipswich proved that it’s in a league of its own as the town’s football club celebrated promotion to the Premiership. The Evening Star had its own team at Wembley for Monday’s First Division play-off final and
More than 70 people have been nominated for an award in a newspaper’s quest to find Community Pioneers. The Hull Daily Mail has been running the competition with radio station 96.9 Viking FM. Charity volunteers, clergy, neighbourhood campaigners and pressure
Journalist Annalise Pavitt, from the Cambridge Evening News, took part in a massive community project yesterday – as well as reporting it. One Day in May encouraged people in East Cambridgeshire to record everything that happened to them. Photos, videos,
Kim Dawson poses in Geri Halliwell’s red platform boots. Photograph by Karen Murray, courtesy of Aberdeen Evening Express Pop writer and committed Spice Girls fan Kim Dawson just couldn’t resist bidding when Geri Halliwell’s red platform boots came up for
A new report by The Newspaper Society throws the spotlight on sweeping changes in the lifestyles of people in the UK. Key findings in the report, called Lifestage, are: the increase in older people becoming parents the increase in the
Journalists at the Bradford Telegraph & Argus have votedoverwhelmingly in favour of union rights in the first ballot to be heldin anticipation of new workplace laws which come in to effect next week. Some 86% of journalists at the Newsquest-owned
Deputy Editor of the Liverpool Echo, Tony Storey, has told readers: “Believe it or not, it’s quite rare to hear the cry – ‘Hold the front page’ in the Echo newsroom.” But he went on to explain that it was
The Stade du Pays in Charleroi. Picture by James Millar, Nottingham Evening Post Fears about safety at Belgium’s Charleroi stadium – which is due to host the England v Germany tie during Euro 2000 – prompted the Nottingham Evening Post
Chris Millar says his prayers before his date with the Hyper Blaster A reporter’s job is not always a happy one. Sometimes it’s just plain sickening. Chris Millar, of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, was left more than a little queasy
Courtesy of Steve Richards, HoldTheFrontPage has received this photograph of the first-ever reunion of past and present staff of the Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard, at the Thames Head Inn, near Cirencester. Among the 70-plus present from Wales, Devon, Harrogate, Ipswich,
Southnews Plc, the London-based regional newspaper publisher, has announcedincreased pre-tax profits of £12.9 million for the year ending March 31 – up 8% year-on-year. A company statement said that most of the increased revenue came in the second half of
Photographs from the archives of the Kent Messenger Group, publishers of Kent and Medway Today, feature in a new exhibition on the life of Sir Winston Churchill. Called The Churchill Connection, the exhibition was opened by Sir Winston’s grandson Winston
After 18 months as a news reporter at the Nottingham Evening Post, where her remit was to dig out stories about the University of Nottingham, Emma Head has a new job – digging out stories about the University of Nottingham.