ADJ

encouraging, excellent, good, great, marvellous, terrific, tremendous, welcome, wonderful
The good news is that we've all been given an extra day's leave. Great news! We've bought the house
bad, gloomy, grim, sad, terrible, tragic, unwelcome
dramatic, important, momentous
hot, late, latest, recent
Some late news has just come in
old, stale
exciting, interesting
front-page
It was front-page news at the time
domestic, home, local, national, regional
foreign, international
business, City, financial
sports, tennis, etc.

QUANT

bit, item, piece
We've had a bit of good news

VERB + NEWS

get, have, hear, learn, receive
Have you heard the latest news?
catch up on
I want to catch up on all your news
announce, break, bring (sb), give sb, tell sb
The police had to break the news to the boy's parents
spread
She ran from office to office, spreading the news
leak
News of their engagement was leaked to the press
report
I haven't really got any news to report
carry
'The Daily Nation' carried news of the event
gather, get
It's the reporter's job to go out and gather news
await, expect, wait for
They are waiting for news of their relatives
greet, react to, welcome
The news was greeted with astonishment
make
It was a very minor incident and barely made the news

NEWS + VERB

come, come in, come through
News is coming in of a large fire in central London
break, leak out
The news broke while we were on holiday
spread, travel
The news spread like wildfire

NEWS + NOUN

bulletin, flash, item, release, report, story
Programmes were interrupted for a news flash
coverage
News coverage of the fighting was extremely biased
conference
The former manager gave his first news conference since being sacked
agency, service
programme
editor
source
media

PREP

at the ~
She went completely to pieces at the news of his death
in the ~
She's been in the news a lot lately
with the ~
Joan came in with the news that a pay rise had been agreed
~ about
I'm not interested in news about celebrities
~ from
And now with news from the Games, over to our Olympic correspondent
~ of
news of fresh killings
~ on
Is there any news on the car bomb attack?
~ to
It was news to me that they'd got married

ADJ

radio, television, TV
evening, lunchtime, nine o'clock, etc.

VERB + NEWS

hear, listen to, see, watch
turn on
broadcast
read
The news is read by Harriet Daly

PREP

in the ~
Our school was mentioned in the news
on the ~
I heard it on t