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Blair praise for work of PA after office blaze

Tony Blair has praised the role of The Press Association of Ireland after a fire destroyed the agency’s Belfast office last month. In a letter to Ireland editor Deric Henderson, the Prime Minister said he was shocked by the destruction.

New editor appointed to Cambridge Evening News

A journalist who has worked on regional newspapers in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales has been named as the new editor at the Cambridge Evening News. Murray Morse, who is deputy editor at The Chronicle, Newcastle, starts his new

MBEs for serving regional newspaper staff

Chichester Observer boss Keith Newbery (right) is now an MBE. He was awarded the honour for services to journalism. He has spent his entire working life in journalism, beginning as a junior reporter on the now defunct Isle of Wight

Pay deal halts further walkouts

A dispute over pay at the Belfast Telegraph has been settled after journalists and management reached agreement. Last month National Union of Journalists members at the paper staged a 48-hour walkout in protest of a three per cent offer, and

Belfast journalists' walk-out rallies support

The National Union of Journalists is appealing for support – both financial and moral – for journalists who were today due to embark on a 48-hour stoppage over pay. Staff at the Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Life, and Community Telegraph have

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Belfast Telegraph journalist Mary Fitzgerald has won a fellowship which will take her to the Washington Post for three months this summer.Mary, who has been at the Telegraph almost three years after completing a postgraduate journalism course at the University

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The ‘golden era’ of newspapers in Northern Ireland is to be remembered by comedian Frank Carson for the BBC’s Bits of Belfast TV series.He’ll meet up with News Letter columnist Mervyn Pauley to remember the days when four newspapers –

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Oldham Evening Chronicle journalist Roger Halstead has become the first recipient of a Golden Boot award from Oldham Rugby League Club’s official supporters’ club.The rugby league writer has worked at the Chronicle since 1961, and the award recognises Roger’s devotion

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The East Anglian Daily Times has launched a campaign to secure the future of an under-threat maternity ward.Health bosses sparked outrage when they moved midwives from Harwich Hospital’s maternity unit to cover for staff shortages at Colchester General Hospital –