The Burton Mail has bitten back after TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson launched a scathing attack on the town.It sent a reporter to the Clarkson family home in the Cotswolds with a box of locally-made gifts and an open invitation for
Archant
- Head Office: Prospect House, Rouen Road, Norwich, NR1 1RE
- Website: www.archant.co.uk
Based in Norwich and privately-owned, Archant employs around 2,600 people across England and has an annual turnover of £194m.
Its newspapers division, Archant Regional, produces four regional daily newspapers, around 60 weekly titles and many of the group’s 160 websites.
Archant also owns three magazine companies, which between them produce around 80 lifestyle and consumer magazines.
More information can be found on the company’s website at www.archant.co.uk.
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Irish title unveiled
The publishers of the new Irish tabloid, Dublin Daily, have revealed what the paper will look like when it is launched later this month. However staff at the paper – which is being backed by Archant – are keeping its
News in brief
Brain tumour sufferer Caroline MacDonald had a dream come true when the Extra in Scotland fixed for her to meet Fame Academy winner David Sneddon.Caroline, (21), contacted the Archant Central Scotland publication, which is David’s local paper, in hope she
News in brief
Press photographer Martin Elliott is asking for people and businesses to donate vital medical supplies for a baby unit in Africa.He plans to take a suitcase full of equipment when he visits the Gambia next month and is appealing for
Fashion tips for editorial staff
TV fashion gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine gave a pair of Eastern Daily Press journalists a few style-pointers when the What Not to Wear stars were in King’s Lynn on a promotional tour. Emma Lee and Laura Devlin were
Reporter takes on prestigious town role
Lowestoft Journal chief reporter Terry Reeve has been installed as the new Town Reeve of his home town of Bungay. The town is the only place in the UK still retaining the office of Town Reeve and Terry (pictured) previously
Publisher launches learning resource
Archant Suffolk has launched a new website designed as a learning resource for thousands of school pupils across Suffolk. Eduzone, produced by the publishers of the Evening Star, Ipswich, and the East Anglian Daily Times, is an interactive website aimed
Retiring quartet gave 125 years to company
A quartet of editorial staff from Norfolk are retiring this month after totting up 125 years of service to Archant between them. Evening News sub editor Hugh Gayler retired at the beginning of December after 23 years with ECNG and
"Loyal and determined" former news boss has died
The former chief executive of Home Counties Newspapers, Bill Coppen-Gardner, has died after a long illness, aged 67. He joined the company in 1989 as managing director, was appointed to the board and went on to become chief executive. It
NVQ success for Archant trainees
Three trainee journalists from Archant Anglia have successfully completed their Level 4 NVQs in Newspaper Journalism (Writing). Jon Ball, from The Royston Crow, Fran Curtis of the Ely Standard in Cambridgeshire and Mark Linigard, a reporter with the Hunts Post,
Newspaper office hit by floods
A newspaper office was hit by floods this week as torrential rain swept across East Anglia. Staff at the head office of Archant Anglia, publishers of several weekly papers including The Royston Crow, Wisbech Standard and Hunts Post, had to
Presses roll at Ipswich
The presses have started rolling on a new £1.5m press extension at the Evening Star, Ipswich. The facility was opened by the Mayor of Ipswich who also unveiled a gold plaque to mark the installation of the new unit. The
Emma is editor at 24
Emma Silverthorne has been named as the new editor of the Sidmouth Herald. The 24-year-old will be one of the youngest people to take on the role and the first woman editor in the paper’s 153-year history. She will succeed
Terry's 40 years with newspaper group
Archant Norfolk’s longest serving member of editorial staff is celebrating 40 years of continuous service with the company. Terry Reeve (pictured), now chief reporter on the Lowestoft Journal, first joined the group in 1962. Terry, (59), said: “I joined straight
Tributes paid to familiar face at Archant
Tributes have been paid to Archant Norfolk employee Sheila Younge who died suddenly from cancer. Sheila, (51), was the receptionist at Archant’s Thetford branch office and has previously worked at the company’s Swaffham office. She had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s
Weeklies join forces to take on daily competitor
The Aberdeen Independent has joined forces with three of Archant’s weekly newspapers in a bid to strengthen its advertising. The two companies have joined together to better compete with the daily Press and Journal in Aberdeen. The alliance means that