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Sport Wire

Round-the-clock breaking sport news service from correspondents across the world.

Regional Wire

Breaking news from nine English regions, covering major national events to local crime and politics.

Photo Wire

UK news, sport and showbiz pictures with over 45 photographers capturing the stories and events that matter.

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A free news service for charities, voluntary organisations and community groups across England.

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India Wire

News service for Indian newspapers, broadcasters and websites bringing the latest news on Indians in the UK.

Features Wire

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Digital archive

A wealth of information can be found for you by our researchers who access the two archives compiled by the Press Association.

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Powerful, story-telling graphics on the day's news events for web and print.

 
 

Award-winning photos

Press Association Newcastle-based photographer Owen Humphreys bagged both photographic prizes - Photographer of the Year and Picture of the Year – at the 2009 Tom Cordner North East Press Awards.

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Wire service news

  • Roy 'Chubby' Brown 'punched woman'

    Comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown denies assaulting a woman in a car park
    Blue comic Roy 'Chubby' Brown hit a 21-year-old woman in the face during a foul-mouthed dispute in a supermarket car park, a court has been told.
  • Plane spotters return from India

    Stephen Hampton and Steven Ayres have returned home (AP)
    Two British plane spotters are back home after avoiding a 10-year sentence in an Indian jail on spying charges.
  • Berezovsky wins libel payout

    Boris Berezovsky has won his High Court action over a 'savage libel' on a Russian TV station
    Boris Berezovsky has won £150,000 High Court libel damages over claims on a Russian TV broadcast about the radiation poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

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