Newsquest, the UK’s leading local media group, has appointed Liz Nice as regional editor at its titles in Suffolk. In her new role Liz will take over the editorship of daily news brands East Anglian Daily Times and the Ipswich Star on September 26 from Brad Jones who left in…

It was a news event of international significance. But the death of the Queen was also an intensely local news story for journalists right around the UK. Here, Behind Local News looks at what happened over the next 10 days in newsrooms across the UK Most people will be able…

On the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, Newsquest titles the length and breadth of the UK came together to publish a unified message on all its front pages. ‘The Last Goodbye’ is the solemn yet powerful message that was carried by Newsquest titles for identical front pages on September…

The editor of the paper which counts Balmoral as part of its circulation area has revealed how ‘old-fashioned’ reporting helped it answer one of the most asked questions in the hours after the Queen died. Frank O’Donnell, editor of the Press and Journal in Aberdeen, said journalists had to turn…

The front page spoke of a city in mourning, as so many local newspapers did in the days after the Queen died. Few titles, however, will have been so entwined with the mourning than the Portsmouth News, whose editor Mark Waldron, took part in the first vigil held by the…

For two local newspapers, the death of Queen Elizabeth II took on a particularly significant meaning — and not just the need to change pages urgently before deadline. For the independent free weekly the Windsor Observer, the news of Queen’s death came shortly before the presses were due to roll…

Among the hundreds of thousands of people who have queued to see the Queen lying-in-state were local journalists from around the UK, keen to share experiences with readers of regional newspapers and websites. Daniel Green, a reporter on the Brighton Argus, made an early start in the Capital to join…

As soon as the death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced, the eyes of the world’s media focused on London. For MyLondon, Reach’s local news site, the announcement, and the many significant moments which have punctuated the days ahead of the funeral have been highly local news events too. Andy…

The timing of the announcement of the Queen’s death — 6.30pm — gave one newspaper just enough time to rip up its entire next day edition and start again from scratch. The Oxford Mail changed 50 pages in just a few hours to ensure its first edition after the death…