Paper apologises for lifting rival?s stories word for word.

(From Press Gazette)

Byline: Sarah Lagan

The editor of the Wiltshire Times has warned a new rival weekly not to lift stories from his newspaper.

Toby Granville was astonished to find stories and quotes lifted from his paper word for word in the Warminster and Westbury Standard, a Northcliffe paid-for weekly.

After complaining to Standard editor Joanna Roughton he has received an apology and a pledge that lifting will not happen again.

When reading the new paper Granville spotted an article headlined ?Residential Home Would Generate Jobs?. He said that, apart from the intro, the story was identical to the page lead in the Wiltshire …