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The winners of the Northern Ireland Press and Broadcast Awards will be running on HoldTheFrontPage from Sunday night onwards. There are 18 categories in the prestigious regional awards which are sponsored by BT and run jointly with the Institute of
Kind-hearted Shropshire Star readers stepped forward to find a new home for Shetland pony Burlington Bertie. For the past three years, since he was rescued by an animal sanctuary, Bertie has lived with Beverley Whalley. But she contacted the Star
A double-page spread in the Liverpool Echo spoke volumes about teamwork between editorial and advertising. Headlined It ad to be you, the special report by Paddy Sheehan pulled together five examples of how the top evening title had changes people’s
Nottingham City Council is cutting through its red tape after the Evening Post highlighted the case of a 90-year-old partially-sighted man who had to journey across the city 12 times to renew his disabled person’s bus pass. Officials have said
Former South Wales Evening Post journalist Michael Boon received his MBE from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. Mr Boon, who recently retired as specialist writer and Westgate columnnist with the Western Mail, was honoured for services to journalism
WHAT A MOUTHFUL: A pub regular swapped beer for a gigantic chocolate bar in a charity challenge at his local. The Lancashire Evening Post reported that engineer Geoff Evans guzzled nine pounds of Toblerone in nine hours. The stunt, at
Pete Goss, and his revolutionary £4.5 million yacht Team Philips, have won support and pages of coverage from regional papers across the country – but especially in the south west. When trouble struck during sea trials this week, the editor
The regional BT-sponsored Press and Broadcast Awards were handed out in Birmingham with Sue Fisher, of the Tamworth Herald, named as runner-up in the category of Weekly News Journalist of the Year. Sue has more than 20 years’ experience as
Prime Minister Tony Blair sparked a heated political debate over the government’s vision of patriotism and Britishness at the Newspaper Conference Annual Luncheon in London. He told an audience of 100 guests, including regional publishers, editors, MPs, political editors and
Independent News & Media, whose £300m takeover of the Belfast Telegraph Newspapers Ltd was announced this month, saw profits leap by 68 per cent last year. Its £151m operating profits were achieved on record turnover of £920m. Meanwhile, Trade &
Police have welcomed a major evening newspaper’s refusal to use “joyriders” to describe tearaway car thieves. The Manchester Evening News has a policy of calling them “grief riders”. “I admit it does sound a bit clumsy,” says editor Paul Horrocks.
A nationwide survey of secrecy in local government has been launched by the Society of Editors. It aims to find out which councils are planning cabinet-style executive committees and which of them will meet in secret. The survey follows one
The regional BT-sponsored Press and Broadcast Awards were handed out in Birmingham with Peter Rhodes, Chief Feature Writer of the Wolverhampton Express and Star, named as Feature Writer of the Year. It was the third year out of the last
The BT Midlands Press and Broadcast Awards are being scrapped in their present form after six years. Journalists at last night’s ceremony in Birmingham were told the awards would be replaced by “a programme that better reflects the way that
Loot, the privately-owned classified advertising business, is listening tooffers from a range of media companies including Freeserve, online auctionbusiness QXL and French company trader.com. Loot, which has a thriving online business as well as a stable of regionalclassified magazines, has
The regional BT-sponsored Press and Broadcast Awards were handed out in Birmingham with the Carlton Broadcasting, 24 hours – Gypsy being named as second runner-up in the News/Current Affairs Programme of the Year category. The judges described it as “an