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BONDAGE AND BURGLARY: A middle-aged man had to be cut free from a tangle of chains after a bondage session with a woman who took advantage of him in more ways than one. As he lay clad in a black

News In Brief – from around the regions

WHAT A MOUTHFUL: A pub regular swapped beer for a gigantic chocolate bar in a charity challenge at his local. The Lancashire Evening Post reported that engineer Geoff Evans guzzled nine pounds of Toblerone in nine hours. The stunt, at

Star is praised for 'sensitive' reporting

The Sheffield Star has won praise from a council chief for the way it reported the asylum seekers crisis. Leader of Sheffield Council, Peter Moore, told a meeting of the city’s Corporate Strategy Committee: “The Star must be praised for

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Best publisher organised event – weekly newspapersWinner: West Lothian Courier – Livingston F.C. Open DayHighly commended: Morecambe Visitor – The Night Before ChristmasCertificate of merit: Oxford Times Series – In Business Exhibition Best in-paper reader offer – daily/Sunday newspapersWinner: Evening

Together we can boost sales

Teamwork between editorial, sales and promotions is the key to boosting regional newspaper sales. That will be one of the key messages at the Newspaper Society’s two-day annual newspaper sales conference which started in Manchester today. More than 300 delegates

Countryside reflections for former staffman

Former Sheffield Star reporter David Kavanagh has launched his ownwebsite about British countryside issues – quite ironic as he was once areluctant witness in a national court case against Animal Liberation Frontextremists. The case at Sheffield Crown Court in 1987

Inaccuracy and intrusion

Resolved complaints dealt with by the PCC in January and February 2003. The majority of complaints made to the Press Complaints Commission, which raise a possible breach of the Code of Practice, are resolved directly between the Commission’s staff, editors

Star support for Jamie-Leigh

The Sheffield Star is asking its readers to donate £5,000 to make a big difference to a young girl’s life. Jamie-Leigh Griffiths had both feet removed when she was eight-months old after they became infected with by septicaemia following a

Feel safer with The Star

Pro-active newspaper campaign encourages readers to Stand Together

Bikers targeted by paper's off-road initiative

The Sheffield Star has launched a campaign to stop illegal off-road bikers who pose a threat to people’s lives across South Yorkshire. South Yorkshire police officers received 250 complaints between May and October over what has been branded a “dangerous

Star plea for work on infamous bypass

The Sheffield Star has launched a petition to improve a by-pass which claimed the lives of two local boys. The four-year-olds were killed when the BMW their mother was driving collided with a lorry at Stocksbridge. The campaign comes after