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Burton Mail group snaps up Staffordshire weekly
Weekly set up with redundancy money proves too good to miss out on for big news group
Former newspaper men link up to boost PR firm
New non-executive chairman for expanded North East business
Bedfordshire on Sunday bought by owners of Cambridge Evening News
Iliffe adds six sister weeklies to its portfolio
New MD for south coast publishing company
John Banks has been appointed regional managing director of Newsquest (Hampshire). Previously holding the same role in Newsquest’s South West region, his new job is based in Southampton. Newsquest (Hampshire) covers publishing centres at Andover, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Southampton and Winchester.
Former regional press chiefs win Birthday Honours
The founding president of the Society of Editors, Geoff Elliott, has been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. He won his gong for services to journalism and served as editor on the Kent Messenger, the Coventry Evening Telegraph
Newspaper chairman set to retire
Ian Richard, group publishing director of Yattendon Investment Trust plc, is to retire at the end of the year. He is also currently chairman of all the group’s newspaper businesses, which include Cambridge Newspapers, Herts & Essex Newspapers and Staffordshire
News in brief
Former journalist Peter Green has won the Order of Mercy, for 50 years of charity work.He has volunteered for the National Association of Hospital and Community Friends since the 1950s. The award – the charity equivalent of the OBE –
Cambridge journalist retires after 50 years
Cambridge Evening News journalist Colin Moule has retired after a 50-year career with the paper and its Weekly News sister series. Colin, (66), began working on the evening paper, then called the Cambridge Daily News, in 1951 – when journalists
Paper relaunches as a free
by HoldTheFrontPage staff Before (left) and after the re-launch The Saffron Walden Weekly News is celebrating its relaunch as a free newspaper. The 111-year-old Essex paper, part of Cambridge Newspapers, is now distributed to more than 20,000 homes. It was
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,
Evening News bid to plug £175,000 hospice care funding shortfall
Newspaper campaign to save under threat “hospice at home” service
Papers play big part in crime inquiries
Three newspapers are currently running poster appeals in partnership with their local police forces to help solve two murders and a rape. The NewcastleEvening Chronicle, Cambridge News and Hull Daily Mail have printed and displayed the posters around the areas
Who's at the Door?
The Cambridge News is shutting the door on bogus callers who target the elderly and vulnerable, with the launch of its Who’s at the Door? campaign. The newspaper has teamed up with Cambridgeshire police and Asda to launch the campaign
Regional titles set to compete at Newspaper Awards
The nominees for the 2004 NewspaperAwards are: Regional Newspaper of the Year The Goss International Premier Award for all regional weekday daily newspapers Daily Echo, BournemouthEvening Chronicle, NewcastleEvening Star, IpswichLeicester MercuryReading Evening PostShropshire StarWestern Daily Press Regional Weekly Newspaper of