A wartime drama left 2,000 people evacuated from their homes and brought a wealth of copy for the Sunderland Echo. The paper enjoyed a running story about a 1,000lb Second World War bomb that had remained buried and unexploded in
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Echo and Gazette to get new editors
The Sunderland Echo is to get a new editor as Andrew Smith steps aside to concentrate on a new role within the company. He will become full-time editorial director of Northeast Press Ltd, and will be succeeded by Rob Lawson,
Johnston plans to buy RIM in £560m deal
Johnston Press is planning to buy Regional Independent Media for £560m. Johnston, the UK’s fourth-largest regional newspaper group, is launching a £220m rights issue of shares in connection with the deal. The deal is agreed and has already been approved
Echo veteran retires
Deric Walker, deputy editor of the Sunderland Echo, has retired after 35 years with the paper. Deric joined the Echo as a trainee reporter after leaving school, and after qualifying he moved from a district office to the paper’s head
News in brief
The Appeal of Stan the Man is spreading far beyond the circulation area of the Bristol Evening Post, where deputy editor Stan Szecowka pens his weekly column and sits by a hotline for people to ring him with their views.According
Five new members for editors' committee
Andrew Smith, editor of the Sunderland Echo and Simon Bradshaw, editor of the Brighton Evening Argus, are among five new members to join the Society of Editors’ Parliamentary and Legal Committee. Also joining are Sue Ryan, managing editor of The
Echo poll wins smoking ban
Readers of the Sunderland Echo have voted overwhelmingly to make the city’s biggest shopping centre a no-smoking zone. The newspaper organised the poll on whether to allow smoking in The Bridges after highlighting the dangers of passive smoking. The company
In loving memory
Page 1 of 2 Fourteen distinguished North-East journalists were honoured when theirfamilies, friends and colleagues turned out in force to plant trees in theirmemory. One of The Northern Echo’s millennium projects last year was to helpestablish a community forest. The
Respected journalist remembered
One of the North-East’s most respected journalists has died. Tony Crangle, a former production editor at the Sunderland Echo, was 72. He began his career in journalism in 1944 as a 15s-a-week junior reporter in the Sunderland office of the
Sunderland Echo dominance confirmed
The Sunderland Echo’s dominance of the local media scene is confirmed by new research. On average, 126,000 people – 47 per cent of the adult population in the circulation area – read the Echo every day. That means it is
John puts up a Bookshelf
Award-winning journalist John Dean has set up a new children’s books website. It’s the latest twist in an eventful 20-year career in journalism which has seen John work for eight different regional titles before going it alone as a freelance
Third time lucky for Echoas thug is named
The Sunderland Echo has finally won the right to name a teenage tearaway who has terrorised Wearside. City magistrates lifted the ban which protected the identity of 16-year-old Daniel Sayers, of Tadcaster Road, Thorney Close, at the paper’s third attempt.
Profits up for Johnston
Johnston Press has revealed a 36 per cent jump in profits in its half-year results announcement. The figure is strengthened by rising advertising revenues, which are continuing strongly into the second half of the financial year. The group, which publishes
Backing for "Bede on the Block"
The Sunderland Echo says that its campaign to get a statue of The Venerable Bede put on a vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square has won backing from a Government minister. Janet Anderson, who is the minister responsible for overseeing the
Payout for rape victim identified in local press
Woman not named but newspaper’s description led to identification
Press can name over-18s in youth courts, says High Court
Northeast Press has won a landmark ruling to name teenage offenders who appear before youth courts after they have reached the age of 18. The High Court said the test case of teenager David Lee Todd, who was named by