The Sunday Mercury is celebrating after setting the national news agenda for the second week in a row, following its exclusive interview with a gay couple who adopted three children. The Birmingham-based newspaper, which is owned by Trinity Mirror, published
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The journalist that broke the story of former a Miss World being an unmarried mother – a revelation that led to her losing her crown – has confessed to feeling guilt over the story’s repercussions.Broadcaster Tim Richards, who was at
New face on regionals' parliamentary beat
Caroline Wheeler has been appointed the Northcliffe parliamentary correspondent. She takes up her duties from Monday September 6, and will serve the daily titles in Humberside and Lincolnshire, as well as the South Wales Evening Post, succeeding Zoe Hughes who
Group-wide efficiency project prompts press closure
Trinity Mirror has announced it is to close its press in Chester as part of a group-wide project to cut costs and improve operating efficiencies and newspaper quality. The Chronicle Series, North Wales Weekly News Series and Buy Sell group
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A former Edinburgh University academic is claiming that media pessimism about the future of Gaelic could be a factor in the language’s demise.Dr Emily McEwan Fujita examined the media’s coverage of Gaelic and Gaelic speakers during 2000 at Edinburgh University’s
'True wordsmith' Richard Williamson has died
Sunday Mercury chief feature writer Richard Williamson, one of the Midlands’ best-loved and most respected journalists, has died following a suspected heart attack. He was 56. For the past 35 years, Dick’s unique brand of journalism has been gracing the
Flooding forces Post & Mail disaster plan into action
Papers at the Birmingham Post & Mail were under threat as millions of gallons of water flooded into the papers’ city centre headquarters. An eight-inch water hydrant which feeds the former Post & Mail tower had sheared during Friday evening,
Redundancies sought at Midlands title
A raft of fresh redundancies at the Birmingham Post has been announced by parent company Trinity Mirror. The paper is set to lose the roles of deputy editor, head of news, head of content, head of features, head of business,
The Birmingham Post has a new editor
A former editor of the Sunday Mercury is to take over at The Birmingham Post. Fiona Alexander – an award-winning editor with the Sunday title – will take up her new role later this month. Her current role is that
New roles, new posts, new responsibilities
Several editorial staff at Trinity Mirror’s Birmingham-based titles have been given extra responsibilities in a series of internal promotions. At the Evening Mail, long-serving photographer Steve Murphy has been appointed picture editor, while Gary Denning becomes the paper’s chief sub-editor,
Newsroom jobs safe
Journalists’ jobs are safe in the latest round of job reviews at Trinity Mirror. A group spokesman confirmed than the roles of 18 divisional staff are currently under review. All are based at Trinity Mirror’s regional newspaper division headquarters in
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A firm which sent unsolicited text messages saying mobile telephone owners had won a £1,000 prize has been halted in its tracks – thanks to the Sunday Mercury.Telephone watchdog ICSTIS invoked “emergency procedures” to stop the firm sending any more
20 redundancies for Post & Mail and Sunday Mercury
Twenty redundancies are being sought across the newsrooms of the Birmingham Post & Mail, the Sunday Mercury and the company’s free weekly, the Birmingham News. The blow comes at the end of a project run across the whole of Trinity
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Press photographer Martin Elliott is asking for people and businesses to donate vital medical supplies for a baby unit in Africa.He plans to take a suitcase full of equipment when he visits the Gambia next month and is appealing for
Investment will bring job losses
A new press centre planned for the Birmingham Post and Mail and Coventry Evening Telegraph will prompt the loss of more than 90 jobs. Around £60m is being invested in a new press hall at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham to
Sunday's answer to national "threat"
The Sunday Mercury notched up a notable sales success on the day that the Daily Star Sunday launched, crushing claims that the new national’s arrival would have an adverse impact. Powered by an aggressive campaign featuring exclusive news stories, extra