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Archant’s Ham&High newspaper has launched a #MakeYourMark campaign calling on voters to register by the April 20 deadline so they can have their say in England’s tightest three-way marginal seat, Hampstead and Kilburn, on May 7. In 2010, there were just 42 votes separating victors Labour with candidate Glenda Jackson and the Conservatives, with the Liberal Democrats around 800 votes short of the winners. [...]

A question mark hangs over a number of Government initiatives seen as pivotal to supporting a healthy, vibrant local news media sector, with the Labour Party silent on whether or not it would continue them if it wins the general election in May. The Party has not responded to repeated requests from the News Media [...]

Archant’s North Devon Gazette has broken new ground with the first of two online hustings events. All six of North Devon’s General Election candidates went to the Gazette’s Barnstaple office to take part in the live debate. Reporters Sarah Howells and Elliot Anderton fielded the questions on a liveScribble feed, mainly submitted by readers in advance, but also by those taking part on the [...]

Annabelle Dickson, Newspaper Conference chairman and political editor of Archant's Anglia titles, has argued in a debate that local newspapers will be pivotal to the outcome of the general election in May. Annabelle told the audience at the debate on local media and the election sponsored by JICREG  that the “hundreds of marginal constituencies” are where the election [...]

Trinity Mirror’s regional titles launched their General Election coverage today by publishing manifestos based on the views of more than 18,000 readers. The first in a series of regional election initiatives, the 'My Manifesto' project aims to cut through the national political agenda and find out what local readers really want from the election. A list of [...]

DMGT has reported underlying revenue in line with last year for the five months to the end of February 2015. Its B2B businesses reported strong underlying revenue growth of 4% during the period. In February, Hobsons, dmg information's education business, acquired Starfish Retention Solutions, the US based provider of higher education student support and advising systems. [...]

Archant’s Mustard TV is one year old and to celebrate it has announced the launch of the Mustard TV Celebration Fund on its birthday, March 24. The Fund will support three of the region’s outstanding charities, and provide a funding pot open to the county’s community groups and good causes. The fundraising drive over the next year will [...]

Dr Mark Johnson has joined The Printing Charity as Helps and Futures manager to help the charity increase the number of people it supports year-on-year. As well as managing the charity’s day-to-day Helps programme of financial support for individuals, he is responsible for developing long-term relationships with organisations and other charities to increase uptake of the [...]

Media group Johnston Press has secured a multi-million-pound deal to print the Daily Express and the Daily Star. The announcement of the five year deal came today (see story on home page news feed)as the company revealed an increase in underlying pre-tax profit of 235 per cent to £29.9 million last year- up from £8.9 million a year earlier. [...]

• Restructuring on schedule with positive effects • Group sales of €1.1bn on a par with prior year • Positive results in both business segments • €14.1m operating profit and €5.5m pre-tax profit • Operating cash flow over €43m and high net liquidity • Outlook 2015: Similar sales with higher EBT margin • Koenig & [...]