To fête the 70th year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, several towns – and a few villages – are to be granted the royal right to call themselves cities.
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There is nothing stopping a place in the UK declaring itself a city – but most campaigns covet a royal charter.
New Leveson-compliant watchdog will provide firm hand for newspaper industry.
It looks as if Leveson’s proposals might finally bear fruit. But will the government have the courage to make it happen?
It looks as if the proposals laid down by the Leveson Inquiry will come to nothing.
Nick Davies is a hero for my generation of journalists and many generations of younger reporters. He can be fairly characterised as a Woodward or Bernstein of British “quality” journalism. Davies decided…
Britain’s press has been accustomed to a particular form of self-regulation, which I would call self-interested regulation. The bodies we have had, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) and its predecessors…
On Monday evening, the BBC’s Newsnight programme revealed that a sub-committee of the privy council had rejected the Royal Charter on press self-regulation put forward by the Press Standards Board of Finance…
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