Journalists to ballot on industrial action in hope of new offer
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Union members call for 20 per cent pay rise ahead of pensions axe
Staff push for money to help “compensate” for changes as final-salary scheme closure is deferred
Pensions axe for news staff prompts industrial action vote
Publisher is proposing to close its final-salary pension scheme to new and existing members
Newsman set for sheriff role
Robin Burgess, the chief executive of newspaper publisher the CN Group, has been selected as a future High Sheriff of Cumbria. The 52-year-old will take up the ceremonial post in March 2006 after becoming the latest addition to a list
Building work starts on new press hall
Building work has officially begun on a new press hall for the North West Evening Mail. The £5.5m project will occupy a new 10,000sq ft building near Cocken Lake on the Furness Business Park. At full speed the new press
News & Star sponsors historic figures return
Naworth Castle’s historic carved beasts are to make a welcome return to Cumbria – thanks to the Carlisle News & Star. The figures were sold to the Victoria and Albert Museum last year and are to be temporarily displayed at