How a Local Weekly Newspaper Landed 9/11 Anniversary Scoop

Until just before lunch yesterday, the editor of the Cleethorpes Chronicle was not expecting to splash on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York.

Then Nigel Lowther opened what he calls "an extraordinary email" from Frank Leadbetter, about his son, Michael, having been one of the survivors of the World Trade Centre catastrophe.

It led to Lowther obtaining an interview with Michael, who had never previously spoken about his escape from the South Tower.