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.
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The Grimsby Telegraph is ready to put new heart into its community after receiving almost £300,000 to spearhead a ground-breaking initiative. The paper is to link up with local communities to produce quarterly newsletters. The initiative – believed to be
A newspaper is being sued for publishing articles based on the findings of a council report. The Abuse in Early Years report, which centred on two nursery workers, was followed up by The Evening Chronicle in Newcastle in 1998. In
A court case where a journalist was asked by a judge to reveal his sources has ended with the defendant – a detective – being cleared of leaking information about the 1996 Manchester bomb. An 11-day Crown Court trial heard
A reporter stood up in court to challenge a legal order preventing The Brighton Argus interviewing a woman whose daughter had been taken by her father. Brighton County Court had allowed limited details of Anne-Marie Kingshott, her three-year-old daughter and
A district judge has backed the News Shopper in its bid to identify a youngster who breached his Anti-Social Behaviour Order. The Bexley edition of the London newspaper series wanted to name the 16-year-old in the public interest and lodged
Editors are being urged to write letters to the Lord Chancellor about reports that the Freedom of Information Act might be delayed for several years. Instead of phasing in the right of access to information from 2002, it is feared
The Evening Herald was allowed to name a teenager sentenced to 12 months’ detention for running amok on a Plymouth housing estate. The paper won a legal battle to name the 13-year-old when magistrates agreed that printing his name would
Complex legal restraints on the press were explained at a law seminar for the regional press, where “gagging” injunctions and name-and-shame campaigns came under the spotlight. Potential development of privacy laws and their impact on press freedom were the main
The Kentish Express has won an important court victory for freedom of the press and its readers’ right to know. Jo Robertson, chief reporter of the Folkestone edition, stood up and addressed magistrates sitting at Folkestone youth court and asked
The Manchester Evening News has been found guilty of contempt of court after writing about the killers of Jamie Bulger. Click here to read the full story. After publication the Attorney General wrote to the editor, Paul Horrocks, and invited
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The contempt of court by the Manchester Evening News came about after an “inexcusable breakdown in communication” between newspaper staff, according to its lawyers. In an article published on June 22 in the newspaper and on its website, it was
A judge in Swansea has banned the South Wales Evening Post from naming a youth who injured a policeman. The ban was imposed by judge Christopher Morton even though the 17-year-old had been legitimately identified in a previous press report
The Lincolnshire Echo has won the right to name a teenage tearaway who was the first resident in Lincoln to get an anti-social behaviour order. Magistrates invoked the anti-social behaviour order after hearing how Paul David Fisher, (14), subjected dozens
The Newspaper Society’s annual editorial law seminar will take place in London on November 23. It is aimed at editors, journalists, journalism trainers and legal advisers with sessions presented by leading media lawyers experienced in advising newspapers, magazines and broadcasters.
A “vague” court order has been blamed for the conviction of two Sussex newspaper editors who appeared in court accused of contravening a Section 39 anonymity order. Two editors, Simon Bradshaw of The Argus and David Briffet, formerly of the