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The Western Daily Press has scored a success for its use of photography, lifting the European Newspaper Award – a contest which rewards ideas and design.West Country Life, a Saturday supplement, was commended for the way it used its pictures.

Newspaper's stance leads to calls for editor to resign

Coverage of a report into the death of an 11-week-old boy has sparked calls for a newspaper editor to resign. The Edinburgh Evening News told how a report into the killing of 11-week-old Caleb Ness said social workers had failed

Media rivalries fought on the pitch

Staff from the Scottish media took their rivalries onto the pitch when they gathered for a football tournament at Glasgow’s Hampden Park. Teams were fielded from 28 newspapers, TV and radio stations, including the Edinburgh Evening News, the Evening Express

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York Evening Press sales and brand development executive Jenny Horsley can now swap her Ford Fiesta for a 44-foot truck – but she swears she won’t be delivering papers.The 22-year-old has become one of the youngest women in the country

New deputy editor named at Scottish title

Richard Neville has been appointed as the new deputy editor of the Aberdeen Press and Journal. The former editor of Business-am, which ceased publication last year, he succeeds Kay Drummond, who is now deputy editor of the Leicester Mercury. Richard

Evening News is "best-performing daily"

The Edinburgh Evening News is the best-performing daily newspaper in Scotland, according to the latest readership figures. The results of the latest National Readership Survey show the News had a 39.9 per cent increase in readers over the past year

Racial hatred claim dismissed

A complaint against an Edinburgh Evening News columnist has been dismissed. Gaelic speakers had lodged a complaint with police claiming that an article written by John Gibson incited racial hatred against the Gaelic community, contravening the Public Order Act. But

Editors named at sister papers

New editors have been appointed at two Scottish newspapers. Ian Stewart has been officially named as the new editor of the Edinburgh Evening News after ten months as acting editor. Prior to that he had been deputy editor of the

Best of both worlds

Journalist Jennifer Veitch is finding she has the best of both worlds in her latest role as associate editor of the Edinburgh Evening News. At just 28 years old, Jennifer has moved around the industry more than many journalists twice

Former 'Concretians' reunite

A reunion has been held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Concrete, the independent student newspaper at the University of East Anglia. Around 40 former ‘Concretians’ gathered at the basement bar of the 230 Club in Soho, from some of

Reynolds prepares for editorship

From the USA to Europe and Chester to Carlisle, it has been a long journey for the Lancashire Evening Post’s new editor, Simon Reynolds. He was a late-comer to the hectic world of reporting, waiting until his mid-20s to take

Borrell set for Birmingham

Page 2 of 2 It was in this role that he made his biggest impact: “I launched the paper in the tabloid format, just as I have done here at the Lancashire Evening Post. It was a big job, but

Fitness challenge for features editor

A local radio DJ has thrown down the gauntlet to Aberdeen Evening Express features editor Scott Begbie. Gary Stein, of NorthSound 1, and Mr Begbie are to get a fitness test at the gym of Ardoe House Hotel. Two months

News In Brief – from around the regions

BIG JUGS FOR SALE: Saucy signs in shop windows have come under fire in Edinbrugh. One city bar has a huge poster on an outside wall declaring: “Big Jugs Well Hung”. Small print explains that the jugs are pitchers of

News In Brief – from around the regions

A REAL HANDFUL: Pensioner Godfrey Hill has been called The Messiah, an alien and a freak – because he has a thumb and five fingers on each hand. The 72-year-old retired engineer has hexadactyly. The condition is said to affect

Sales figures show winners and losers

MORE than 50 regional daily newspapers lost sales in the second half of 1999, new figures show. But the message from the Newspaper Society was upbeat after data for 1,224 daily and weekly titles was published on the same day