Publisher Reach has announced a commitment to bolster its coverage of the Women’s Super League season (WSL), which starts again next month. Reach’s digital sports vertical, with national and regional titles including the Mirror, Manchester Evening News and Football London, is creating a seven-person team dedicated to Women’s Super League…

Food rationing in the UK has been uncovered by the Herald on Sunday newspaper based in Scotland. Shops across some Scots islands have been forced to ration essential items amid widespread ferry cancellations due to a broken down vessel, the Herald’s Martin Williams revealed. Residents have reported being rationed to…

The share of homegrown doctors and nurses joining England’s NHS is at its lowest for seven years, BBC Shared Data Unit analysis of workforce data has found. Some 58% of doctors joining the health service last year came from the UK, with health bosses increasingly turning to international recruitment. The…

A regional journalist has been honoured for her work revealing that police were more likely to bring charges for sexual offences when the victim was white. Harriet Clugston, who works for National World, won the investigative journalism prize at the Royal Statistical Society’s annual journalism awards. Harriet’s investigation was published…

In a year when there’s been so much bad, sad or mad news, perhaps it’s not surprising that an unashamedly happy story would prove to be so popular on social media. There was a lot of love for nine-year-old Danielle Boadu, after her success in a a category in the…

The front page of a local newspaper from 1998 made a surprise return to the limelight this week — thanks to the success of the England womens football team in Euro 2022. The front page of the Bucks Herald from September 1998 featured a nine-year-old girl called Ellen who, along…

Both candidates to be the next Prime Minister have pledged to back the regional press. But, writes Newsquest’s Norwich Evening News editor Richard Porritt, the industry can’t rest easy… Most newspapers have a campaign running at any given moment. It could be to repair a falling down hospital, raise money…

This is the photo judges at a publisher’s monthly editorial awards picked as their favourite image in June. Taken by Rob Browne of WalesOnline, it was one of a number taken for an article by the website’s Welsh Affairs editor Will Hayward when the pair went to explore what life…

Journalists, lawyers and educators celebrated a united “fight for open justice” at the launch event for McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists. Affectionately known simply as McNae’s and dubbed “a bible for journalists”, the publication of the 26th edition was celebrated last night at an industry reception at Doughty Street Chambers…