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The UK business community thinks that the regional press is the most useful media for local business news, according to a survey by The Newspaper Society.More than a third believe that regional papers have their finger on the pulse of

Media Ball brings in cash to beat cancer

The Yorkshire Press & Media Ball has this year raised more than £2,300. The total sum raised by the organizers, for Yorkshire Cancer research, has now topped £6,000 overall. More than 230 people enjoyed a night of fun and fundraising

Websites include "sinister" threats against journalists

Police are investigating a dossier of threats made against journalists in West Yorkshire on extreme right-wing websites. The dossier has also been taken up by an MP who has sent it on to Home Secretary David Blunkett. It includes evidence

Subbing error "led to resignation"

A reporter at the Selby Post has resigned after what he claims was a subbing error that saw his own father pictured as a drug dealer in his outspoken column. Former News of the World reporter Andy Germaine said he

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

Tributes as former YEP editor dies

A former editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post has died, aged 89. Ewart Clay edited the newspaper from 1965 until his retirement in 1970 when he was also awarded the OBE. He began his career as a junior reporter and

David crosses the Pennines to take up Blackpool editorship

David Helliwell is making a return to Lancashire to take up his first editorship – at the Blackpool Gazette. The newspaper is already on the up, having recently been named Regional Newspaper of the Year at the Newspaper Society’s Newspaper

Website editor is special guest

Yorkshire Evening Post sub-editor Liz Carnell was a guest at a Government reception this week. The event marked the launch of the 2003 National E-Commerce Awards in which the Harrogate charity Bullying Online, of which she’s the founder and director,

Regional newspapers' war correspondents prepare to fly

Nine editorial staff from the regional press will travel to the Gulf with the Ministry of Defence in the event of war breaking out with Iraq. The seven reporters and two photographers would travel as war correspondents and have been

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TV personality Lowri Turner has been speaking to the people of Wales in her new exclusive column for The Western Mail.The hard-hitting journalist and television star writes every Friday with a no-holds-barred views on what is happening in Wales and

TV date for campaigning sub

Yorkshire Evening Post sub editor Liz Carnell was today due to appear on the BBC Breakfast programme, in an interview about the work of the charity website Bullying Online, of which she is the director. The item, hosted by Gaby

Cash award for journalist's 'bullying' website

Bullying Online, a charity founded by Yorkshire Evening Post sub-editor Liz Carnell, has scooped an E-Commerce Award worth £2,000. The website www.bullying.co.uk won the community and voluntary section of the Yorkshire and Humber region of the National E-Commerce Awards and

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The Yorkshire Evening Post has reached its target of raising £2m for a local children’s hospice in just 18 months.The A Place For Us appeal was launched to build a new stand-alone unit to treat children with terminal diseases at

Reward money is handed out

A Yorkshire newspaper has handed out £5,000 in reward money to two women who helped find the killer of Leeds teenager Leanne Tiernan. The Yorkshire Evening Post put up the reward at the height of the hunt for the killer

So far, so good, for newly launched title

The Dewsbury & District Press, launched four months ago, is popular with both readers and advertisers, according to publisher Danny Lockwood. The former Dewsbury Reporter and Lancaster Guardian editor says he is pleased with the how the newspaper has performed,

Death of former Yorkshire journalist

Former Yorkshire Evening Post reporter Barry Plumb has died, aged 58. Barry joined the Evening Post in the late 1960s and was the paper’s motoring correspondent for many years. He was a popular figure among journalism circles in Leeds and