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A well-deserved pat on the back: Yorkshire Evening Post

The Yorkshire Evening Post has been proud to officially back the Can Do campaign, since it was launched in Leeds last summer. Already the scheme, run by the Scarman Trust charity, is helping dozens of community projects across the city,

A well-deserved pat on the back: Birmingham Evening Mail

As well as reflecting on its achievements and its vital role at the heart of its community, the Birmingham Evening Mail used a double page spread this week to give its readers a detailed insight into a day in the

News In Brief – from around the regions

PIKACHU FRENZY: Is there a regional newspaper in the land that hasn’t found an angle on the Pokemon card craze? “Schools bans card craze” has become commonplace. This week, the Hull Daily Mail revealed that two youngsters were threatened with

News In Brief – from around the regions

SURF-INN THE NET: One of England’s oldest pubs – Nottingham’s famous Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem – has set up its own website. The Nottingham Evening Post reported on the ancient inn’s step into the 21st century and told how

Yorkshire Post named North East Daily Newspaper of the Year

The Yorkshire Post was yesterday named Daily Newspaper of the Year in the BT North East Press and Broadcast Awards. The Wakefield Express won the Weekly Newspaper of the Year title in a ceremony at York racecourse. HoldTheFrontPage will publish

News In Brief – from around the regions

BONDAGE AND BURGLARY: A middle-aged man had to be cut free from a tangle of chains after a bondage session with a woman who took advantage of him in more ways than one. As he lay clad in a black

News In Brief – from around the regions

WHAT A MOUTHFUL: A pub regular swapped beer for a gigantic chocolate bar in a charity challenge at his local. The Lancashire Evening Post reported that engineer Geoff Evans guzzled nine pounds of Toblerone in nine hours. The stunt, at

Winners applauded

Regional newspapers were honoured for sales increases at the Newspaper Society’s Newspaper Sales and Promotions Conference and Exhibition. The Peterborough Evening Telegraph won the Bristol Evening Post & Press Award for Best Evening Newspaper, and the Johnston Press Award for

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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

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

YEP sports writer dies

Charles Scatchard, a retired Yorkshire Evening Post golf and rugby union writer, has died at the age of 88. The former RAF officer, a popular figure on golf and rugby union grounds around the country, died at his Oxfordshire home.

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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

News NIBs from around the regions

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

Holiday of a lifetime

Brothers Joshua and Daniel Corrigan are going on the holiday of a lifetime thanks to big-hearted businessmen who read of their plight in the Yorkshire Evening Post. The Corrigan brothers – Joshua is six and Daniel is four – were

News NIBs from around the regions

PULL THE UDDER ONE: Dairy farmers are turning to aromatherapy in a bid to cure mastitis in their cows, reports The Telegraph & Argus, Bradford. A former farmer from Skipton has created a blend of lavender, eucalyptus, geranium and damask

Chuckling for chocolates

To me, to you… There was definitely “no slacking” for our VIP judges The Chuckle Brothers as they struggled to name a winner in our Christmas Cracker Joke Competition. The comedy pair kindly took time out between performances of Jack