Would-be press regulator Impress has submitted its application to the Press Recognition Panel (PRP) and named its first 12 members.

Hyperlocal news websites A Little Bit of Stone (Staffordshire), the Caerphilly Observer (Wales), Port Talbot Magnet (Wales), Southport Reporter (Merseyside), The Lincolnite (Lincolnshire), Your Harlow (Essex) and Your Thurrock (Essex) have signed up.

Impress has also named the New Internationalist, an independent, investigative, non-profit media co-operative, and Northern Ireland-based View Digital, which covers the community and voluntary sector, as members.