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The Ely Standard has been supporting the Disasters Emergency Committee’s fundraising appeal for countries in southern Africa facing famine with its Give Your Lunch to Africa Day.Readers and businesses were encouraged to donate the cost of their lunch for one
Move to keep investigation in public eye
The Daily Echo is launching a fresh push for leads following the murder of South Korean language student Jong-Ok Shin. It has published a poster of the 26-year-old, who was stabbed to death on the streets in Bournemouth a month
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An appeal launched by the Ilkley Gazette three years ago to trace the crash site of a WWII bomber has been commemorated with the erection of a memorial plaque to one of the airmen.John Reilly MBE, of Lanarkshire, has bought
Browne moves into top role
Bill Browne has been appointed publisher of Newsquest Salisbury. Recently appointed to the editorship of the titles published by Salisbury Newspapers – including the Salisbury Journal and Avon Advertiser – he has now moved to the cathedral city in the
Alyson back in the rallying hotseat
Newsquest motoring expert Alyson Marlow is back in the rallying hot seat asthe Hampshire-based rally co-driver heads to Dumfries for the Scottish roundof the Peugeot 206 Super Cup. She has teamed up with top Canadian rally driver Pat Richard for
Death of former Echo man
A man who worked at the Southern Daily Echo for 50 years has died. Wilfred James Benham, who was 90, started work at the Daily Echo in 1926 as a copy boy to reporters and sub-editors. His wage was 8s
Mark Jones steps up to editorship
Mark Jones is the new editor of Gazette Newspapers at Basingstoke. Mark (right) – who started his career in 1985 at the Evening News in Worcester, has been deputy editor at Gazette Newspapers since February 1997. Prior to working in
Alyson takes on "toughest" rally
Motoring writer Alyson Marlow has joined forces with top Canadian rally driver Pat Richard for an assault on one of the country’s toughest rally championships. The pair have just completed their first event together as part of the Peugeot 206
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The East Anglian Daily Times and Evening Star, Ipswich, have teamed up with Anglia Railways in a new sponsorship deal which is part of a £3m investment by the train operator at Ipswich station.The sponsorship provides a welcome sign at
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A charity cheque for £150 was awarded to Daily Echo Bournemouth staff swimmers for raising the second greatest sum of money at the Poole Lions Swimathon event.The swimmers, Judith Barton, Roan Fair, Amanda Langton, Scott Harrison, Rolf Niven and Paul
Ali strikes a pose
Meet Ali Kefford – the Southern Daily Echo’s very own Kate Winslet! In what is believed to be a civilian first, the paper’s chief feature writer struck the famous pose from Titanic on HMS Southampton as the Type-42 destroyer sailed
Handbags and gladrags? No – fishnets and medallions!
Visitors to the Southern Daily Echo in Southampton could have been forgiven for thinking they had stepped on to the set of Chicago. Heartbeats were raised as the paper’s female staff slipped into fishnets to raise money for a Southampton-based
Third editorship for Bill
Bill Browne, editor-in-chief of Gazette Newspapers, is leaving Basingstoke to take up his third editorship. After six years Bill will leave the Gazette on March 22 and take up his new role as editor of the Salisbury Journal and Avon
Journalist claims TV's Millionaire was his idea
The man who claims the hit ITV show Who Wants to be a Millionaire was his idea is a journalist who used to work for the Southern Daily Echo. Still based in Southampton, Mike Bull now operates as a freelance.
Editor will miss his life in news
The Salisbury Journal is to see a change of editor for the first time in more than 12 years. David Eidlestein will stand down in April when Bill Browne, currently editor of the Basingstoke Gazette, will take over. The pair,