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Brian Clough took my picture!
Hundreds of newspaper readers in Shropshire can safely boast that they had their pictures taken by David Bailey. On Teesside, it’s not unusual to find Brian Clough turning up to cover events for the local paper. But sports writers need
Picture desk changes at two titles
Tony Adams is the new picture editor at the Express and Star, Wolverhampton. He has moved from the sister Shropshire Star, where he was chief photographer, and succeeds Geoff Wright, who is heading a new syndication service for the Wolverhampton
Banks's Midlands Press Photographer of the Year Award Winners
Award-winners from the Express and Star, Wolverhampton: Geoff Wright (front) with Tim Sturgess (left), Marie Morrison and Tim Thursfield. Press Photographer of the YearWinner:Tim Easthope (Birmingham Post & Mail) Click here to see his pictures Runner-up:Christopher Radburn (Coventry Evening Telegraph)
Newlywed press photographers set for Italian business adventure
Couple plan to escape life of daily deadlines to launch digital photographic holidays company
Web-based photo sales boost
Dipinto – which now provides a photo sales service for more than 50 newspaper titles across the UK – is to upgrade its ordering system. It is introducing a new web-based system to allow newspapers even more flexibility. The new
Quick-thinking snapper saves jockey from injury
A Shropshire Star photographer has told how his quick thinking helped save a horse and jockey from injury. David Bailey was out on an assignment at Bangor-on-Dee Races when champion jockey Tony McCoy and his horse, Isard III, fell heavily
MPs honour veteran press photographer
MPs have paid tribute in Parliament to a regional press photographer who plans to retire next month. Dan Arden has been a photographer for more than 60 years, working for the Wellington Journal, Shropshire Star, and Newport and Market Drayton
Sarah shows off her shots
A Shropshire Star photographer will open an exhibition of her work next month, showing images she took during the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Photographer Sarah Jeynes travelled to New York last year with the paper’s women’s editor,
MBE for veteran photographer
A veteran Shropshire photographer has been awarded an MBE for his services to the community. Dan Arden, who lives in Edgmond, near Newport, has worked as a freelance and staff press photographer for 64 years. The 83-year-old joined the Shropshire
Star picture collection available online
A photo archive is offering more than 100,000 photos for sale through the Internet. The initiative, from the Shropshire Star, has proved a hit since it went live in June. The aim of shropshirestarpix.com was to make most of the
High sales for flooding record
A photographic record of the floods in the Shrewsbury area before Christmas has proved so popular it has almost sold out. The Great Millennium Floods, published by the Shropshire Star, is an 84-page account of what happened and how people
Jury announced for Picture Editors' Awards 2000
The jury for the Picture Editors’ Awards 2000 has been announced. It includes picture editors drawn from regional, national and Sunday titles. Entries for the Awards close at noon on Monday, January 15. The AwardsCeremony will be held in the
News in brief
Study set out to show trends – plus: pensions deadline moves, and more news in brief
Regional press news in brief
Naomi Bunting is remembered. Plus: Times man nominated at cartoon Oscars – and more news in brief
News staff bid for more time to consider pension changes
Union members say eight-week consultation is not long enough