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News & Star man to take on digital integration role

Deputy editor will work on online projects across the CN Group

Union members call for 20 per cent pay rise ahead of pensions axe

Staff push for money to help “compensate” for changes as final-salary scheme closure is deferred

Pensions axe for news staff prompts industrial action vote

Publisher is proposing to close its final-salary pension scheme to new and existing members

Heart attack claims life of former weekly newspaper editor

Roy Maddison was “a news hound to his fingertips and thrived on controversy”

Former Times & Star editor dies at 87

Stan Hornsby enjoyed a 50-year journalism career

New editor for News as Hilary moves into magazines

The Whitehaven News has appointed a new editor. Colin Edgar, currently chief sub-editor at the Carlisle News & Star, is due to start his new job on Monday April 5. He takes over from Hilary Scott, who leaves the post

Newsman set for sheriff role

Robin Burgess, the chief executive of newspaper publisher the CN Group, has been selected as a future High Sheriff of Cumbria. The 52-year-old will take up the ceremonial post in March 2006 after becoming the latest addition to a list

A life in newspapers relived in new book

A catalogue of tales from a life spent as a journalist can be found in a new book by a former regional newspaper editor. The Maddison Line is the autobiography of Roy Maddison, who edited several weekly titles, including the

CN appoints Keith Sutton as editorial director

Carlisle News & Star editor Keith Sutton has been appointed to the new post of editorial director of Cumbrian Newspapers Ltd. He will advise and assist the senior management team in a continued bid for editorial excellence, and to develop

Peer to take over at CN Group

Lord Inglewood is to become the new chairman of regional newspaper publisher CN Group Limited. He will succeed Joe Harris, (69), who has been chairman for the past 15 years. Lord Inglewood, who has said that he won’t stand for

Paperboys hit the headlines

Two quick-witted paperboys have made the news in separate incidents this week. Joe Davis, 15, who delivers the Coventry Evening Telegraph, was the first to make the headlines when he and his friend saved the life of a pensioner who

New appointment in Carlisle

A new finance director has been appointed to CN Group, the company that runs the Carlisle News & Star. Andrew Swanston is finance director at a Cockermouth brewer and pub company and is likely to join CN in Carlisle early

Appeal marches on

Walkers doing their bit for charity have upped a Millennium appeal by £1,700. Around 100 people raised a total of £6,000 on the Workington to Keswick millennium charity walk 2000, with some of that going to the West Cumberland Times

Leak puts a dampener on Mercury celebrations

New era: the Teesdale Mercury as it was (above) and after its relaunch. A new era got off to a wet start at the 146-year-old Teesdale Mercury. One day, staff were celebrating after the paper had been produced electronically for

New laws help weekly paper ferret out stories

FoI Act ‘valuable tool for reporters and great source of information for readers’