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33 MPs back Mitchell's fair pay petition

MP and former journalist Austin Mitchell has won the backing of 33 parliamentary colleagues for his early day motion calling for fair pay for Newsquest employees. The former TV broadcaster tabled the motion after quoting figures he said showed many

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The Cambridge Evening News has begun the countdown to Cambridge United’s LDV Vans trophy showdown with Blackpool on Saturday.The paper has produced hundreds of car stickers to mark the Millennium Stadium event and had the trophy on show at its

Big names to speak up at newspaper conference

The success of the regional press will be pulled into focus at a conference and exhibition next month. The Newspaper Society Newspaper Sales and Promotions Conference & Exhibition 2001 will take place in Blackpool on March 12-13. The event will

Life would be dull without the Telegraph, says MP

MP Austin Mitchell could not let Local Newspaper Week go by without paying tribute to his own local evening paper – the Grimsby Telegraph. In an article published in the paper, he said: “A good local paper is an essential

Life would be dull without the Telegraph

A good local paper is an essential part of the local life of any community. So essential that it’s hard to think what things would be like without one. Let’s have a go just to show how important a good

Paper scents victory in 10-year fight over cash for fishermen

A 10-year campaign involving the Grimsby Telegraph to win job-loss compensation for distant-water fishermen may soon be over. Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised to resolve the issue “soon” – and the indications are that the payout could be as

Asylum seeker's £440,000 health bill attacked by press

More than 1,000 Grimsby Telegraph readers are calling on a health authority to stop to paying for the care of a failed asylum seeker who was seriously injured in a car crash. They were asked to fill in a coupon

Union briefs MPs on Hutton inquiry issues

MPs were today due to be handed a briefing from the National Union of Journalists highlighting the dangers to journalism posed by Lord Hutton’s inquiry in to the death of Dr David Kelly. Union general secretary Jeremy Dear and Austin