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New deputy for Bristol

Stan Szecowka will join the Bristol Evening Post early next month as Deputy Editor. He is currently Community and Campaigns Editor on the Hull Daily Mail. He began his career as a trainee with the Oxford Journal Group, beforeprogressing, via

Ambulance tales prove a hit

Tenacious reporters in the local press often have a good eye for a story – even if it’s not an obvious winner. Former ambulanceman Alan Crosskill was interviewed by the Lincolnshire Echo about his book Call an Ambulance, based on

Everybody needs good neighbours

Walter Samways is the perfect neighbour to Margaret Baldham. Much of Lincolnshire knows that now because his good-neighbourliness has been recorded forever on the pages the Lincolnshire Echo. The paper is running a series of articles to search for a

From Hull to Hollywood

Frazer Harrison is about to embark on a total career change – for the second time in his 33 years. The photographer – who started his working life as a junior assistant in Marks & Spencers’ menswear department – is

Concorde 'specials' beat the nationals

Fast-reacting staff at two Lincolnshire papers pulled out the stops to be among the first to break news of the Concorde crash. The Grimsby Evening Telegraph and the Lincolnshire Echo both had special editions rolling off the presses at 5.30pm.

Life could be verse

Journalist Judy Theobald is in an enviable position. After years of working in regional newspapers she’s got the job of her dreams at Lincolnshire Life magazine – but has a little sideline that’s still published each week in the Lincolnshire

Danger on the streets

A campaign to encourage drugs users to discard their needles properly is being stepped up by the Lincolnshire Echo. Cases of children pricking themselves on needles left in litter bins have highlighted the dangers in Lincoln. When people visit the

Staff changes at HoldtheFrontPage

Journalist Peter Pheasant is leaving HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk to launch a new website based at the Derby Evening Telegraph. He is replaced by Patrick Astill, who joined the website after a spell in internal communications at Boots The Chemist. Patrick (32) previously

Kate's nippon off

Bristol Evening Post reporter Kate Hinder is leaving the land of the rising circulation to make a new home in the land of the Rising Sun. The 29-year-old Swindon-born education correspondent is Nippon off to Japan to teach English for

Kate's nippon off

Bristol Evening Post reporter Kate Hinder is leaving the land of the rising circulation to make a new home in the land of the Rising Sun. The 29-year-old Swindon-born education correspondent is Nippon off to Japan to teach English for

Bargains galore for Echo staff

It looked for all the world as though the Lincolnshire Echo had found a new way to supplement reporters’ wages. Send them out to an antiques fair armed with £50 each to see how much they could make by spotting

News In Brief from around the regions

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

Printing manager retires with memories of reel car trouble

Regional press news – this story updated 14.6.2000 Printing manager retires with memories of reel car trouble by HoldTheFrontPage staff Putting a rather large dent in the roof of the editor’s car was one of the golden moments recalled by

Echo staff mourn ex-colleague

Regional press news – this story published 15.6.2000 Echo staff mourn ex-colleague by HoldTheFrontPage staff Retired Lincolnshire Echo computer manager Vic Haywood has died after suffering from motor neurone disease. The former magistrate and Salvation Army member had worked for

News In Brief from around the regions

Regional press news – this story updated 15.6.2000 News In Brief from around the regions by HoldTheFrontPage staff FUN FOOD: Crab ice cream, tobacco-flavoured liqueurs and inside-out baked Alaska – they’re all on the menu at Bristol University, where scientists

A fond farewell to "Baggy" Palmer

Former Daily Mirror Editor Richard Stott led the tributes to journalist and crime writer Frank Palmer at his funeral in Nottinghamshire yesterday (Fri June 9). Former colleagues and friends packed the church of St Mary Magdalene in Mr Palmer’s home