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Editor of the Nottingham Evening Post, Graham Glen, shows Prince Charles a board charting the progress of work at the Queen’s Medical Centre’s parents’ unit transformed through an Evening Post Community Challenge. Photo: Courtesy of Nottingham Evening Post Local Newspaper
The Hull Daily Mail told its readers that Research Surveys of Great Britain had found that more people in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire read its evening newspaper than read a national newspaper. Every day, the researchers found,
The Lincolnshire Echo, first published in 1893, has more than 148,000 readers each day. Four months ago, the newspaper revealed the plight of 30-year-old mum Lyn York who had been diagnosed with cervical cancer and given just months to live.
The Yorkshire Evening Post has been proud to officially back the Can Do campaign, since it was launched in Leeds last summer. Already the scheme, run by the Scarman Trust charity, is helping dozens of community projects across the city,
As well as reflecting on its achievements and its vital role at the heart of its community, the Birmingham Evening Mail used a double page spread this week to give its readers a detailed insight into a day in the
A computer virus, which paralysed computer networks across the world, provided copy for the regional press – but few real problems. Warnings about the “ILOVEYOU” virus were sent to newsrooms by many of their own IT departments soon after work
The Freedom of Information Bill has come under attack from the commissioner who will administer it. Elizabeth France, the UK’s Data Protection Commissioner, was addressing the Society of Editors’ seminar in Warwick. She said she found it incredible that the
The phone call came through to the Burton Mail newsdesk on Tuesday afternoon. Would the paper let a crew from Channel 4’s Big Breakfast film at the newspaper the next morning to mark Local Newspaper Week? Editor Brian Vertigen didn’t
Auctioneers Sotheby’s turned to the Nottingham Evening Post for help when a Military Medal for bravery turned up in a private collection to be sold on May 19. No-one knew where the medal’s original owner, George Martin, was and why
Opposition Leader William Hague was the guest speaker at the Newspaper Society’s annual lunch at the London Hilton, on Park Lane, today. He was addressing nearly 300 regional newspaper publishers, editors and their guests at the event, which was taking
The Northern Echo is involved in plans to commemorate one of English football’s all-time greats, Wilf Mannion. An appeal for a lasting memorial to the “Golden Boy of ’50s football”, who died last month, was launched by the Darlington-based broadsheet
HOT OVERALLS WRECK TAKEAWAY: A blaze which wrecked a Chinese takeaway had an unsual cause, the Wolverhampton Express and Star reported. Fire officers told the paper it was caused by spontaneous combustion in a pair of grease-stained overalls. The overalls
Football fans in Portsmouth are cheering after their evening paper helped to get season ticket prices pegged. It was over a cup of tea with Mark Storey, chief football writer for The News, that Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric intervened to
Channel 4’s Big Breakfast marked Local Newspaper Week with a visit to the offices of the Burton Mail. Viewers saw presenter Richard Bacon meeting news editor Andy Parker and deputy news editor Julie Crouch in the newsroom soon after 7.30am
Opposition Leader William Hague has written the following article to mark Local Newspaper Week, organised by the Newspaper Society. In it, he reveals why he thinks more and more people are turning back to the regional press. Something remarkable is