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Veteran journalist Jim targets silver surfers for latest news venture
Veteran journalist Jim Brennan is launching an electronic newsletter for the over 80s. Derby-based Jim, who turns 86 next week, is calling the not-for-profit enterprise eighties_united. He’s targeting so-called web-savvy “silver surfers”, of whom there are a million-plus around the
Veteran journalist launches more subscription newsletters
Derby writer Jim Brennan branches out to cover three more cities
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MD to leave after 18 years with Northcliffe. Plus: Mail readers help raise £2.5m – and more news in brief
Reunion for long-lost brothers is thanks to Telegraph article
Youngest of seven brothers pleased with result from letter to paper
In-paper promotion offers free scholarships to Derby university
Cash-strapped students are offered help with the cost of studying
City's community paper continues to grow
A West Country free paper has quadrupled in size since hitting the streets of Exeter four years ago. The Heavitree News, which serves the east of the city, set up as a community paper with a circulation of 2,000 in
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The journalist that broke the story of former a Miss World being an unmarried mother – a revelation that led to her losing her crown – has confessed to feeling guilt over the story’s repercussions.Broadcaster Tim Richards, who was at
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Sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Liz Williams won a top prize in a national political journalism contest, after taking a few tips from Reading Evening Post editor Andy Murrill.She submitted her item to the Citizenship Foundation in the form of an Evening Post
New Derby Telegraph MD is named
Paul Kearney is to become the new managing director of the Derby Telegraph’s publishing company, Derby Daily Telegraph Ltd. Currently managing director of Northcliffe Newspaper’s South East Weeklies, Paul will fill the role vacated by Tim Kitchen, who is to
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The Newspaper Press Fund will receive more than £3,000 as a result of the ‘This Is Bristol Spectacular’ starring The Foundations and Berni Flint. An equal amount will also go to the Lord Mayor of Bristol’s Christmas Appeal for Children
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Stars paid tribute at the funeral of Brian Gibson, the former advertising feature writer with The Argus in Brighton and Pye/Decca records press officer.It was attended by more than 100 friends from the worlds of journalism, public relations, music, theatre,
Being Bond leaves David shaken not stirred
James Bond will soon be back on our screens to do his duty once again for Queen and country. So the Derby Telegraph’s David Clensy decided to don a dinner jacket and live the life of an all-action hero –
Chips are down in fire strike
A stark warning about taking care in the office while the firefighters are on strike led to a downbeat memo from the Derby Telegraph’s Chris Baker, who in addition to reminding staff about rules on smoking and fire drill, broke
Spot of bother at Pride Park
They tried… and they failed. So is it all over for the Rams? Not if the Derby Telegraph can help it. The paper rallied support for the beleaguered team by asking fans to point to the spot – the centre
Party time at the hive!
A Beehive-shaped caked covered with “smiley” bees was the centrepiece at celebrations to mark the second anniversary of two Midlands’ beehive community networks. The Derbyshire and Leicestershire Beehive networks were launched in December 1999 as joint pilot projects for the