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Former newspaper men link up to boost PR firm
New non-executive chairman for expanded North East business
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Union backing for defendant – Plus: Telegraph staff accept pay deal, and more news in brief
How one journalist kept on the trail of 'Wearside Jack'
Jailing of hoaxer marks the end of a long investigation by Echo
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Echo probe finds cocaine in every venue tested
Investigation found positive drug test results around Sunderland – including the magistrates’ court toilets
Weeklies' editor-in-chief moves on
Northeast Press man’s role is made redundant
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Plus: former Echo home is demolished – and more news in brief
New editor for Yorkshire titles
Former Edinburgh Evening News man turns his attentions to 14 papers
New editor chosen for Liverpool Echo
Alastair Machray: “Proud to be taking over editorship of one of the truly great titles in newspapers”
Journalist calls for his attacker to be given 'compulsory therapy'
Former regional press man speaks out as judge prepares to sentence his assailant
Tributes to former Echo man
A former Sunderland Echo journalist has died after a long illness. Dave Willey, whose career spanned more than 40 years, was also a long-serving magistrate in his home town of Durham. Friend and former Sunderland Echo colleague George Oliver said:
Regional press staff caught up in tsumani drama
More regional newspaper staff have become caught up in the events surrounding the Asian tsunami disaster on Boxing Day. Yesterday we told how Victoria Temple, a journalist at The Citizen in Gloucester, survived the horror. A former managing director of
Editors survive holiday hurricane horror
Two regional newspaper editors have told how their holidays to Florida became dominated by the worst hurricane to hit the area in more than ten years. Rob Lawson, editor of the Sunderland Echo, and Andrew Smith, a former Echo editor
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When Romford MP Andrew Rosindell was taken sick during a parliamentary visit to Brazil, he missed the Romford Recorder’s publication day and had a copy of the Archant paper flown to his bedside.He said: “I had one of my staff