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One giant leap for Lisa

A fundraising appeal by the Cambridgeshire Times was given a boost with a hair-raising experience for one of the newspaper’s reporters. Lisa Cleverdon was sponsored by staff at the Wisbech Standard and March Times to do a skydive for the

One giant leap for Lisa

A fundraising appeal by the Cambridgeshire Times was given a boost with a hair-raising experience for one of the newspaper’s reporters. Lisa Cleverdon was sponsored by staff at the Wisbech Standard and March Times to do a skydive for the

News in brief

A successful bid for cash has resulted in Falmouth College of Arts attracting £1.6m of European Social Funding to establish a Creative Enterprises for Cornwall project.The project should encourage more applicants for postgraduate courses, including those in journalism, multimedia and

Former journalist dies at 100

Former Nottingham Evening Post journalist Frank Slaughter has died at the age of 100. He died at the Newspaper Press Fund Home in Dorking, Surrey, after suffering a pneumonia-related heart attack. As a child Frank dreamed of becoming a reporter,

A career in the local press

Frank Slaughter is more qualified than most to comment on the local press. Born in 1901, he has seen massive changes in the industry over the course of his life. But one thing has remained the same throughout – Frank’s

Editor addresses meeting to help secure U-turn

Decision-makers performed a U-turn on their policy about a dangerous road after the local paper’s editor addressed a key meeting. Brian Asplin, of the Cambridgeshire Times, addressed a transport committee as part of his paper’s What Price a Life campaign.