BIG JUGS FOR SALE: Saucy signs in shop windows have come under fire in Edinbrugh. One city bar has a huge poster on an outside wall declaring: “Big Jugs Well Hung”. Small print explains that the jugs are pitchers of
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'Phenomenal' success of apartnership in humanity
Regional newspaper appeals on behalf of the United Nations Children’s Fund raised about £350,000 in three weeks to ease suffering in flood-ravaged Mozambique. Unicef regional officer Edward Carwardine called the results “absolutely phenomenal”. He told HoldtheFrontPage that £261,200 came from
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HOT OVERALLS WRECK TAKEAWAY: A blaze which wrecked a Chinese takeaway had an unsual cause, the Wolverhampton Express and Star reported. Fire officers told the paper it was caused by spontaneous combustion in a pair of grease-stained overalls. The overalls
Newspaper's letter takes 66 years to arrive
A letter posted from the former head office of the Western Morning News in Frankfort Street, Plymouth, in October, 1934, has found its way to the paper’s current hi-tech offices in Derriford in the city. Where it has been in
TV shows race to deadline
A regional newspaper’s battle to beat the nationals on a breaking story about the Ulster peace process will be shown on television tonight. Part 2 of Hold the Front Page follows editor Barrie Williams and senior editorial staff of the
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A REAL HANDFUL: Pensioner Godfrey Hill has been called The Messiah, an alien and a freak – because he has a thumb and five fingers on each hand. The 72-year-old retired engineer has hexadactyly. The condition is said to affect
TV spotlight on Plymouth paper
Editor Barrie Williams outside the Western Morning News nautical glass HQ A six-part TV documentary about the Western Morning News begins next month. Called Hold The Front Page (no relation to this website) it will be screened in Carlton’s West
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Best publisher organised event – weekly newspapersWinner: West Lothian Courier – Livingston F.C. Open DayHighly commended: Morecambe Visitor – The Night Before ChristmasCertificate of merit: Oxford Times Series – In Business Exhibition Best in-paper reader offer – daily/Sunday newspapersWinner: Evening
Charity amazed by response to Mozambique appeal
Charity officials have been overwhelmed by the response of Western Morning News readers to an appeal for cash to ease suffering in flood-ravaged Mozambique. In 10 days, readers used coupons printed in the WMN to pledge £16,523 to the United
Sales figures show winners and losers
MORE than 50 regional daily newspapers lost sales in the second half of 1999, new figures show. But the message from the Newspaper Society was upbeat after data for 1,224 daily and weekly titles was published on the same day
Together we can boost sales
Teamwork between editorial, sales and promotions is the key to boosting regional newspaper sales. That will be one of the key messages at the Newspaper Society’s two-day annual newspaper sales conference which started in Manchester today. More than 300 delegates
New title joins post office campaign
The Coventry Evening Telegraph is one of the latest daily regional newspapers to ask its readers to help “Save Our Post Offices”. It joins the Western Morning News, the East Anglian Daily Times and a host of other titles fighting
Archive treasures revealed by editor's grandson
A newspaper which is 140 years old this year has gained a wealth of historical material to enrich its anniversary supplement. Bombing during the Second World War destroyed many of the early archives of the Western Morning News at Plymouth.
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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
Early bird George makes the News
Newspaper delivery man George Husband is an insomniac’s dream. He delivers the Western Morning News to customers in Newton Abbot at three o’clock…in the morning! George’s devotion to duty earned him praise from reader Judy Chard in a letter to