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Play-off fever is gripping the regional press in the run-up to the weekend’s crunch games which will decide the future for football fans. Two of the papers caught up in the excitement are the East Anglian Daily Times – which
A teenager battling multiple sclerosis – who was the focus of the Bath Chronicle’s NHS Postcode Lottery campaign – has enjoyed a VIP theatre trip after winning her fight for fairness. The newspaper took up the case of Stephanie Millward,
They came from all points of the compass and from all walks of life to 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
Hundreds of journalists who have worked in the north west and North Wales will remember Rex Thelwall. After more than 30 years with Chester Chronicle and associated newspapers, Mr Thelwall is retiring at the end of June and a party
A newspaper’s appeal for information about a Second World War airman brought results within hours. The Nottingham Evening Post reported that historian Martyn Ford-Jones wanted to add details of Flight Lieutenant Arthur Jarvis – killed in a plane crash in
NUDE FOOTIE: Police were called to playing fields at Cheltenham at 4am after a caller reported six men playing football in the nude, the Gloucestershire Echo told its readers. There was no sign of anyone by the time officers arrived,
A woman has landed her first job in journalism as a direct result of advertising on HoldTheFrontPage. Rajeshree Sisodia paid £10 to advertise her CV on the site for three months. Now she has phoned us to say: “I’ve got
Another battle over council secrecy has erupted in the north-west. The Lancashire Evening Telegraph has blasted the county council for rejecting a move to force its new, single-party cabinet to meet in public. The paper’s Opinion column accused the ruling
The Evening Chronicle has given space in its Feedback column to two readers who took issue with its recent drugs investigation. The newspaper ran a front page story which exposed a Big Issue seller pushing heroin in Newcastle’s premier shopping
Evening Star editor Nigel Pickover admits he’s taking a £10,000 gamble with this year’s Ipswich and Suffolk Press Ball. The paper aims to raise £25,000 for disabled children through the fourth annual Press Ball. With all tickets sold, Mr Pickover
Leading UK regional newspaper group Johnston Press has agreed to buy 14 new titles for £16.5m – subject to approval from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Johnston, which is currently the 4th largest publisher of local and
HoldTheFrontPage has been bringing you the winners from all the BT regional press and broadcast awards around the country. Now there are just three regional finals and the national finals to go. Today it is the turn of the south
Rosalind Knighton works in PR, but in the past she worked for the Shields Gazette on Tyneside, and prior to that on the Shields Weekly News – now called the Whitley Bay Guardian series. She contacted us to share this
A new member of staff arrived in the newsroom of the Lincolnshire Echo – for one day only. Maya Ranganathan is a senior reporter at the New Indian Express, Chennai, India. A national daily, it is published from 13 centres
Mhairi Macfarlane joined the Evening Post, Nottingham, last September and has already had her first trip to London for an awards ceremony. Mhairi (24) was one of four finalists in the Catherine Pakenham awards. (To read our earlier story on
Big names from the world of sport were among mourners at the funeral of Lancashire Evening Telegraph deputy sports editor and chief sports writer Peter White. Blackburn Rovers manager Graeme Souness and former Aussie Test cricketer Peter Sleep joined other