A school bus crash involving 60 children has prompted a local news website to campaign for a change in the law.

Just minutes into a daily journey, tragedy struck as the double-decker — transporting youngsters to Sir Robert Pattinson Academy and North Hykeham Academy in Lincolnshire — crashed and became…

The Hackney Citizen has been named Independent Community Newspaper of the Year.

The gong, supported by the Independent Community News Network and the Google News Initiative, was awarded at the recent newsawards ceremony held in central London.

The title was also commended in the corresponding website category and highly commended…

Isle of Wight hyperlocal site Island Echo won the Google-sponsored ICNN Community Website of the Year.

The website secured the honour at the NewsAwards, one of the first journalism awards to be held in person since the pandemic.

The website, founded by editor Darren Toogood in 2012, reaches 340,000 people…

There was a familiar winner of the Weekly Newspaper of the Year award at this year’s NewsAwards in London — with the Cambridge Independent winning the title for the fourth year running.

The judges said: “For the fourth successive year, this magnificent stitched and trimmed magazine-style weekly scored highly with…

An eye-catching cartoon marking the end of one of the shortest political leadership careers ever helped the Irish News win Regional Daily Newspaper of the Year at the NewsAwards this year.

Among the three editions submitted for the category was The Irish News from Friday June 18 which carried an…

The Liverpool Echo scooped News Website of the Year at the annual NewsAwards.

The Echo, one of the country’s top three biggest regional news sites, picked up the award against a tough field of regional competitors at the awards, held in person in London earlier this month.

Little more than…

Norwich Evening News editor Richard Porritt on his paper’s new campaign to ‘sort it’

A chap came into the office the other day.

He was holding a box of chocolates and a bottle of bubbles and wanted to see one of my reporters.

In October we launched the We’ll Sort it’ campaign — a fairly simple plan to put pressure on the council to…

The latest deployment of Archant’s new newsroom structure has gone live in London this week.

The new structure has created a regional live news reporting team, specific reporting teams for the Ham&High Express and Romford Recorder and chief reporters for Archant’s other brands.

Cash Boyle has been appointed as the…