The Somerset Standard is set to more than double its team of village correspondents. The paper, which circulates in an area near Bath, is advertising for people who like to pick up the local gossip. It wants to provide a
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The Bath Chronicle has been involved in a massive task to find out how badly the area’s tourism industry has been hit by the foot and mouth crisis. And the newspaper has sent out an emotive letter to tourist chiefs
Hooligan brought to book
The biography of a self-confessed football hooligan is about to hit the shelves. Heart of a Hooligan, written by Bath journalist Paul Alkazraji, tells how David Jeal turned to God after witnessing a brutal attack on a Swedish youth by
No fuel for Bristol journos
Following our story about Bristol and Bath journalists failing to get fuel as priority users click here to read it again we received this e-mail:
"Too few women editors" says Liz Page
Liz Page, editor of the Evening Press, York, has won the unanimous nomination of the board of the Society of Editors to take over as vice president next month. If the annual meeting in Cardiff in October backs the board’s
Former Chronicle girl is contest finalist
A journalist who started her career at the Bath Chronicle is one of eight shortlisted finalists in a news contest that attracted 11,000 entries. Imogen Sellers is now at HTV, the ITV network for the Bristol, Bath and south-west area,
Seagull cull support
A proposed city seagull cull in a busy tourist area has led to a bulging mailbag for its evening paper. A survey in the Bath Chronicle found five out of six people who live in the city want rid of
News In Brief from around the regions
Regional press news – this story updated 10.6.2000 News In Brief from around the regions by HoldTheFrontPage staff CROWNING GLORY: A quiet Bolton street has been unmasked as the most famous neighbourhood in the country. The row of terraced houses
Theatre treat for MS teenager
A teenager battling multiple sclerosis – who was the focus of the Bath Chronicle’s NHS Postcode Lottery campaign – has enjoyed a VIP theatre trip after winning her fight for fairness. The newspaper took up the case of Stephanie Millward,
News In Brief from around the regions
NUDE FOOTIE: Police were called to playing fields at Cheltenham at 4am after a caller reported six men playing football in the nude, the Gloucestershire Echo told its readers. There was no sign of anyone by the time officers arrived,
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HOT OVERALLS WRECK TAKEAWAY: A blaze which wrecked a Chinese takeaway had an unsual cause, the Wolverhampton Express and Star reported. Fire officers told the paper it was caused by spontaneous combustion in a pair of grease-stained overalls. The overalls
Actor Clive joins drugs lottery fight
Actor Clive Mantle, who plays Dr Mike Barrett in BBC-TV’s Holby City, has backed a campaign by the Bath Chronicle to end the country’s NHS postcode lottery. He said he had been moved by the plight of one-time champion swimmer
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WHAT A MOUTHFUL: A pub regular swapped beer for a gigantic chocolate bar in a charity challenge at his local. The Lancashire Evening Post reported that engineer Geoff Evans guzzled nine pounds of Toblerone in nine hours. The stunt, at
News In Brief – from around the regions
A REAL HANDFUL: Pensioner Godfrey Hill has been called The Messiah, an alien and a freak – because he has a thumb and five fingers on each hand. The 72-year-old retired engineer has hexadactyly. The condition is said to affect
Budget first for Hastings trainees
SEVEN trainee journalists from The Editorial Centre, Hastings, did their papers proud when they covered yesterday’s Budget live on a website. It was a first for the centre which has previously put trainees through their paces by producing written copy
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UNITED ON BABY’S NAME: A West Midlands husband who wanted to name his son after the entire Manchester United team has been persuaded by his wife to settle instead for a simple Ryan Matthews – in honour of United’s Ryan