North East journalist started out as district correspondent
Peter Barron
What we have written about Peter Barron
Newspaper in bid to stop sex offenders dodging jail
Legal loophole allows lawyers to argue the right rehab isn’t available in prison
Regional editor’s home ransacked by party gatecrashers
Jewellery stolen by teenage revellers while editor was on holiday
Former journalist’s book recalls 1950s newsroom
Book tells of time as office junior at regional daily
Blind journalist turned radio personality dies aged 50
Presenter was president of the National Union of Journalists
Northern daily to raise weekday cover price by 30pc
Increase in pagination to accompany price hike
Regional daily forces Gove U-turn over job cuts plan
Education workers to move to new purpose-built base
Daily’s dual splash reflects Thatcher divide
Newsagents given a choice between pro- and anti-Thatcher splashes
Editor’s second children’s book goes to press
Comes as schoolgirl creates new character for series
Stop hiding behind press offices, editor tells councils
Editor hits out after ‘growing trend’ to restrict free speech
Daily editor demands apology for Gove schools slur
Education secretary spoke of “smell of defeatism” in schools
Thousands raised in daily’s war memorial appeal
Campaign total to be boosted as war veterans to sell off silver
Regional daily takes jobs fight to Downing Street
More than 1,000 people sign petition to keep jobs in town
Regional editor becomes Deputy Lieutenant for county
Honour bestowed on news chief after Queen ‘did not disapprove’
Regional daily posts ‘virtual bills’ in new sales drive
Traditional bills outside newsagents no longer enough, says editor
Editor apologises over ‘case of mistaken identity’
Death of local football stalwart wrongly announced in column