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 Home Office review of sex offences, laws and sentencing is asking for views on how proposed regulations would affect the work of the press. The review sets new definitions for a range of offences, as well as guidelines on
Complaints by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust about the Crawley Observer have not been upheld by the Press Complaints Commission. The Trust complained that a photographer had taken pictures at the hospital without permission. These were then used with
A night shelter for the homeless of Norwich, branded “a relic of the bad old days”, prompted the Evening News to back a public appeal to raise thousands of pounds for a new one. The project for a new purpose-built
Japanese TV journalists have been to the Sevenoaks Chronicle to get the low-down on how the British media is covering the disappearance of Lucie Blackman. Lucie, from Sevenoaks, went missing while working as a hostess in bars in Japan. The
A borough council is considering taking the Worthing Herald to the Press Complaints Commission for printing what it considers to be confidential information about staff. The Herald told its readers about the background to senior staff changes at the authority.
The Leicester Mercury had the presses rolling at 5.07pm with a front page lead and page two backgrounder on the day of the Concorde disaster. Journalists drew on information from a Leicester University aviation expert, on hand within 30 minutes
After last week’s cringe-making motoring revelations from Dave Speck, another Grimsby Telegraph reporter reveals all about his motoring misfortune. Read all about Phillip Norton and his brush with the law, from the paper’s “First Person” column. DIY car maintenance is
Readers in the south are enjoying the benefits of a revamped ThisisEssex website. The site is full of news, views and information from 22 local newspapers across the county. It is part of the network of Thisis…. sites run by
The Peterborough Evening Telegraph has devoted a double-page spreadto the debate over the naming and shaming of paedophiles. After the News of the World’s vow that it will reveal the identities of all Britain’s 110,000 child sex offenders, Evening Telegraph
An asylum seeker, who was given two homes in the UK and government benefits to support his two wives and 15 children, complained to the Press Complaints Commission about his treatment at the hands of the Sunday Mercury. The article,
The longest-serving employee at the Herald Express, in Torquay, chief photographer David Williams, cut a 75th birthday cake at a staff celebration of the paper’s landmark anniversary. The party – which included a glass of bubbly for all – took
A pensioner has been put back in touch with the friend who saved her child’s life 38 years ago – thanks to the Liverpool Echo. Scousers Tessie McTigue and Ronnie Kahn, both now living in America, became friends in 1962
A couple are to marry after cupid’s arrow struck through a weekly newspaper’s lonely hearts feature. Karen Harvey and Neale Goldsbrough had been together just two hours when he told her he wanted to spend the rest of his life
Two Gloucestershire newspapers have become the voice of the people and told readers how their local council overturned an education committee decision – and voted to close a special needs school. The Gloucester Citizen condemned the move, attacking councillors for
Victims of disgraced gynaecologist Richard Neale have praised the Northern Echo – which was the first newspaper to turn the spotlight on his activities back in 1993. The 52-year-old consultant and former surgeon was found guilty by a General Medical
Debbie Tweedie has been appointed the new Deputy Editor of the Cambridge Evening News. She has been Editor of the Bury Free Press for the past three years, during which time the newspaper’s circulation has risen from 28,600 to 31,000.