Regional press news – this story updated 23.6.2000 News In Brief from around the regions by HoldTheFrontPage staff THE BEAUTIFUL GAME: Football fans can now log on and share poetic thoughts on a new Internet site. The Gloucestershire Echo reported
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Regional press news – this story updated 10.6.2000 News In Brief from around the regions by HoldTheFrontPage staff CROWNING GLORY: A quiet Bolton street has been unmasked as the most famous neighbourhood in the country. The row of terraced houses
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SNAKE’S ALIVE: Sonia Howick had an unexpected guest in her conservatory, reported the Portsmouth News – a five-feet long corn snake which she discovered hanging from a cupboard door. An RSPCA inspector called to the scene had to extricate the
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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,
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FULL-TIME FOR PUPILS: Lunch was being served with a football theme today for pupils in Cambridgeshire schools. Twenty four hours before Chelsea were due to face Aston Villa in the FA Cup, the youngsters were tucking into turkey footballers, mini
Journalists mourn former tea lady
Staff at the Gloucestershire Echo are mourning the death of a woman who was a key figure in the newsroom – tea lady Lil Roberts. Editor Anita Syvret was among mourners at yesterday’s funeral service at Cheltenham for Mrs Roberts,
Peace and reconciliation in Japan
Reporter Alex Gore was pictured in the Lincolnshire Echo tackling a 28-stone sumo wrestler whose name means “Wisteria branch”. Albert Edward Gore died in 1942 at the hands of the Japanese Army. Fifty eight years later, the grandson he never
18th birthday treat from the Echo
When Yvonne Schofield turned 18, there was only one present she wanted – a trip in a helicopter. But her mum, Barbara Drinkwater, could not find a helicopter operator who was willing to take Yvonne as a passenger, because the
Appeal for articles fit for a prince
The Gloucestershire Echo has devoted a page to an appeal to its readers to enter The Prince’s Trust Local Reporting Award. The award has been introduced as part of this year’s Local Newspaper Week (May 1-7) organised by the Newspaper
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PIKACHU FRENZY: Is there a regional newspaper in the land that hasn’t found an angle on the Pokemon card craze? “Schools bans card craze” has become commonplace. This week, the Hull Daily Mail revealed that two youngsters were threatened with
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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
More help for Mozambique
More regional daily papers have joined forces with aid agencies in the UK and abroad in a bid to relieve the suffering in flood-ravaged Mozambique. Many titles have devoted several pages to covering the efforts of their readers to raise
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UNITED ON BABY’S NAME: A West Midlands husband who wanted to name his son after the entire Manchester United team has been persuaded by his wife to settle instead for a simple Ryan Matthews – in honour of United’s Ryan
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POSTMAN’S NIGHTMARE: A Rottweiler chased unlucky postman Paul Elliott into a telephone kiosk after stealing a full mail bag out of his hand. The Shields Gazette reported that Paul rang the assistant manager at the South Shields sorting office who
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FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART: Cheeky baby Cameron Morton has a perfect heart-shaped red birthmark on his bottom – which shows no sign of fading. The Grimsby Telegraph could not resist showing the world a picture of one-year-old Cameron,
The Echo gets around…fast!
Avid newspaper reader Ron Collett, of Cheltenham, is impressed with the speed at which the Gloucestershire Echo gets around. He wrote a letter to the newspaper recently about a dream he had of a mystery bridge, and within minutes of