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