Journalists from newspapers, television and radio will celebrate next Tuesday as they collect prizes for crystal-clear reporting. There are six categories in the media section of the annual Plain English Campaign awards. The Western Daily Press has scooped the award
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New challenge for O'Reilly
Peter O’Reilly has been appointed editor of the Bristol Observer. He succeeds Simon Harding who is due to take up the post of executive production editor (features) at the Western Daily Press next month. Previously associate editor of the Western
More press trips to the Gulf are announced
More regional press journalists will travel to the Gulf as part of the Regional Press Corps, a facility organised by The Newspaper Society. The trips are being organised for the run-up to Christmas, to give the UK regional press the
Sporting chance for Daily Press readers
The Western Daily Press is giving one of its readers the chance to become a football star. It has kicked off a competition which will see one boy take up a place at Bristol City’s Football Academy for a minimum
Veteran political journalist to speak at Society conference
Political journalist Chris Moncrieff will be the guest speaker at the Society of Editors annual dinner in October. The Press Association journalist will provide his own insight into events of the past year such as the Hutton inquiry and difficulties
Going where few fear to tread
Mervyn Hancock, of the Western Daily Press, was one of the entrants in our recent contest to write about the dangers of journalism.He took a look at some dangers facing the regional press journalist, and we’d like to share his
Crime reporter joins officers on armed drugs raid
Police in Bristol have carried out one of the biggest single operations against dealers of crack cocaine in the Westcountry – and the Bristol Evening Post’s Julie Harding was the only newspaper journalist to witness it. For the past week
Regional editors to speak at conference
Four editors from the regional press will be among the speakers at this year’s Society of Editors Conference. Mike Gilson of The News in Portsmouth, Leicester Mercury editor Nick Carter, Hannah Walker of the South London Press and Terry Manners
Lung cancer claims feature writer
Western Daily Press features editor George Frew has died. He was 48. The multi-award-winning journalist had been battling against lung cancer, and had penned two moving articles about his illness and how he was coping with it. Less than two
Power cut halts newspaper production
Copies of the Western Daily Press were printed at Northcliffe’s Staverton printworks in Gloucestershire after an explosion in a generator caused a power cut at its Bristol headquarters. Staff were evacuated from the multi-storey building, which also houses staff from
Does movie stardom beckon for Ruth?
In a bid for super-stardom, reporter Ruth Wood met talent-spotters in Bristol as they auditioned movie star hopefuls for new film, The Guv’nor. Casting directors are searching for the best undiscovered acting talent for the production dubbed the ‘People’s Film’,
60 years of wedded bliss for former editor
Former Bristol Observer Series editor Norman Walters and his wife Janet are celebrating 60 years of marriage. To mark the occasion the couple enjoyed a special lunch at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’s president suite with family and friends. The couple
War reporter 'headhunted' by Evening Standard
Richard Edwards, who was named British Trainee of the Year by Newstec last month, will leave the Western Daily Press later this year to join the London Evening Standard. The 23-year-old covered the war in Iraq as a member of
Journalist's battle with fatal illness to be screened on TV
A journalist’s fight with motor neurone disease and his campaign for the right to die will be told in a television documentary next week. Phil Such, formerly of the Western Daily Press, died in September last year aged 38. But
My story from the Gulf: We talk to war correspondents
As soldiers, sailors and airmen have returned from their time in the Gulf, so have reporters from the Regional Press Corps. The group was made up of named journalists on standby and registered with the Newspaper Society, which organised their
'I don't want to go home in the dark'
Page 5 of 6 Things improved, and as usual, my friends were on hand to improve them. Such wonderful friends like Markie The Manc, who suffers from Old Trafford blindness, but managed to see his way to keeping in touch.