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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
The regional BT-sponsored Press and Broadcast Awards were handed out in Birmingham with Louise Palfreyman, of the Sunday Mercury, named as runner-up in the category of Feature Writer of the Year. The judges praised her for her deft management of
by HoldTheFrontPage staff Hull Daily Mail front pages from Monday and Tuesday The Hull Daily Mail is co-operating with West Yorkshire Police to help them bring to justice the yobs who marred Hull FC’s appearance in the rugby league Challenge
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The regional BT-sponsored Press and Broadcast Awards were handed out in Birmingham with Caroline Foulkes, of the Nottingham Evening Post, named as a runner-up in the Society of Editors/Newcomer of the Year category. She had been with the Post for
Schools’ Mission 2000 is the name of the biggest-ever prize giveaway to be run by the Nottingham Evening Post. Vouchers are printed in the paper each day and more than £110,000 of prizes are on offer to the schools which
The regional BT-sponsored Press and Broadcast Awards were handed out in Birmingham with Adam Blackmore, of BBC Radio Northampton, named as a runner-up in the Society of Editors/Newcomer of the Year category. He had tried jobs in pub management and
A REAL HANDFUL: Pensioner Godfrey Hill has been called The Messiah, an alien and a freak – because he has a thumb and five fingers on each hand. The 72-year-old retired engineer has hexadactyly. The condition is said to affect
The Prime Minister will be the guest speaker at the Newspaper Conference Annual Lunch in London tomorrow. Among those attending the lunch will be regional press editors, political editors and lobby correspondents who are members of the Newspaper Society, as