The South Wales Evening Post has launched a quest to find its Young Reporter and Young Photographer of the Year 2000. The competition is open to two age groups – primary school pupils 11 and under and senior school pupils
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UNITED ON BABY’S NAME: A West Midlands husband who wanted to name his son after the entire Manchester United team has been persuaded by his wife to settle instead for a simple Ryan Matthews – in honour of United’s Ryan
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POSTMAN’S NIGHTMARE: A Rottweiler chased unlucky postman Paul Elliott into a telephone kiosk after stealing a full mail bag out of his hand. The Shields Gazette reported that Paul rang the assistant manager at the South Shields sorting office who
Celebrations over Swansea cancer campaign
Swansea is to get the first teenage cancer centre in Wales – thanks largely to a South Wales Evening Post campaign. Readers’ response to the Post’s appeal for cash to build a cancer care centre at Singleton Hospital was so
All The World Loves A Lover
Village correspondents are a vital part of the newsgathering operation for many local newspapers. In Swansea, one of their number has been making the news herself. Julie Todd, who is a “Grapevine” correspondent for the South Wales Evening Post, and
Readers strike it lucky with reporter's wife
The wife of a Brighton Evening Argus reporter has been helping readers to win prizes galore thanks to one of the most unusual syndicated features around. Ruth Galloway writes a column for the Saturday leisure supplement containing tips on winning
The sincerest form of flattery?
Healthy rivalry in South Wales has seen two competing papers getting very close to the same story. Readers of the Neath Guardian and the Swansea-based South Wales Evening Post may have noticed two versions of a tragic story describing tributes
Named and shamed after Post's intervention
A teenage thug has been unmasked in the South Wales Evening Post after the paper persuaded a judge to remove reporting restrictions. Recorder Keith Thomas agreed that people had the right to know the identity of the 17-year-old, despite her
Evening Post names teenage drug dealer
The South Wales Evening Post has named a teenage drug dealer after it made a successful request to identify him. The 17-year-old was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court, but could not be named in press reports of the case after
Evening Post banned from naming youth
A judge in Swansea has banned the South Wales Evening Post from naming a youth who injured a policeman. The ban was imposed by judge Christopher Morton even though the 17-year-old had been legitimately identified in a previous press report
Irwin joins press watchdog board
KMG editorial director takes on role following departure of Paul Horrocks from PCC
Editor Feeney joins Press Complaints Commission
South Wales journalist’s appointment follows the retirement of Ed Curran
Latest resolved complaints dealt with by the PCC
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 and complainants. These are either settled to the express satisfaction of the
Paper rapped for inaccurate axeman story
An evening paper has been found guilty of an inaccuracy in a story that could have put a woman and her children at risk. The Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint against the South Wales Evening Post about a story
'Articles contained inaccuracies'
Latest resolved complaints dealt with by the PCC during January, February and March 2002 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
Council "sop" – claim
A call has gone out for a council to listen to a plea from readers of the South Wales Evening Post. Swansea Council is determined to proceed with a controversial city centre voucher car parking scheme, according to the paper.