Here are some excellent tools that let you search ONLY through newspapers and magazines:

• UK news search engines
• BBC search tools

Plus on other JNet pages:

• UK news searches - Archives
• How to search news in other countries
• How to search news in Europe
• Finding newspapers
• Finding TV stations
• Finding radio stations

The best:

• UK NewsNow        Fast, well organized site with breaking news and a 30 day search engine.(Use commas to separate keywords ):

  Business & Finance Technology Current Affairs Sport Gaming Entertainment

• Yahoo UK News    Click here to see headlines or search here:

The rest:

• MediaUK
• DailyNewspaper.co.uk
• Ananova 
• NewsTrawler - UK
• Breaking  Legal News - UK
• EuroNews
• News-review Cutting service    The archive contains over 100,000 articles. Search engine allows non-subscribers to find articles by company, person or individual word. Download the full text of the articles for a charge of 1 each.
• Mediaworldnews
• Bestbooksonline
  

BBC:

• BBC Advanced search     Search one of the best news sites on the web by headline, keyword, for the last day, week or going all the way back to 1997
• BBC news ticker
• BBC Archives            Search stories on their web site
• BBC Simple search:

   

Plus these web sites:

• Electric Library   Excellent newspaper and magazine archive. Mainly American but some European sources. Not free but well worth the small monthly fee
• Total News
• News-review     With press cuttings service, search for news, etc. Most services for a fee
• News Tracker     Create your own news clipping service. Excellent tool -- make your own "New Topic".   Relies on about 300 news sources