A free daylong training event in the UK on December 9 will focus on media coverage of asylum and refugee issues.

The training will be conducted by the Exiled Journalists' Network (EJN), an organisation set up to help journalists who have fled to the UK to escape persecution because of their media work.

Interested journalists, public relations officers and media officers are invited to attend. The training will be held at: The New Writing Partnership, 14 Princes Street, Norwich, NR3 1AE.

To register or for more information, e-mail shenaz@newwritingpartnership.org.uk with "Media training" in the subject heading of the e-mail.