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MP opens newspaper offices

The Herald & Post’s new Darlington offices have been officially opened by MP Alan Milburn. The Darlington MP joined series editor Sue Giles and Gazette Media Company managing director Alastair MacColl to unveil a plaque and tour the two-storey Victorian

Charities get £2,000 boost from news staff's fundraising

Evening Gazette staff provided a £2,000 boost to each of six Teeside charities, which provide much needed help and support in the area. The Gazette Media Company’s Charity awards 2003, held at Gazette Buildings, Middlesbrough provided the venue for the

Gazette gets visit from PM

Prime Minister Tony Blair paid a visit to the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette during his trip to Teeside. The PM travelled to the Gazette’s Borough Road offices with his wife, Cherie, to officially launch the paper’s newly refurbished Gazette Media Centre.

£11m investment for Gazette Media

Gazette Media Company’s plans to re-equip its Teesside operation with a new press facility have been confirmed and contracts have been signed with suppliers. Building work will commence later this year and the new press is scheduled to print live

Trinity papers press ahead

The Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough has been given planning permission to extend its Borough Road premises to allow a new printing press to be installed. The new press will significantly increase colour capacity and could be operational by as early

Gazette editor moves to Chronicle

Paul Robertson is to leave the editorship of the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette for the editor’s post at the Newcastle Chronicle. He will take over from Alison Hastings, who is leaving the Chronicle after six years to move to Liverpool. Paul’s

Sad farewell for GMC's managing director

Neil Benson, former editor of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and Coventry Evening Telegraph, has left his post as managing director of Gazette Media Company to take up a new position with GMC’s parent company. Mr Benson, 46, has been appointed