The Press Association is the national news agency of the United Kingdom and Ireland, supplying multimedia news content to almost all national and regional newspapers, television and radio news, as well as many websites with text, pictures, video and data content globally. It was founded in 1868 by a consortium of provincial newspaper proprietors as a co-operative in order to supply news items from across the country to its members. It has offices around the UK and Ireland including London, Nottingham (photographic department) and Howden and has over 200 correspondents throughout Britain.

It is part of the PA Group which includes subsidiaries that specialise in coverage and data of sport, entertainment and business. In turn the Press Association has two subsidiaries, the Scottish Press Association and the Press Association of Ireland (covering Northern and the Republic of Ireland).

The Press Association produces over 100 stories on weekdays. The choice of stories by the Press Association has a large impact on coverage in UK media. A study to quantify this found that 70% of UK news articles in the five most notable quality London based newspapers were largely influenced by the Press Association's copy (or the few other much smaller agencies in the UK). 30% of stories were simple copies.Guardian journalist Nick Davies' study of what he pejoratively termed churnalism found that a high proportion of stories in UK media, including some distributed by the Press Association, amounted to little more than uncritical reproduction of press releases and spin from government bodies and corporate organisations.

Alper Sendilmen (born 4 July 1980) is a German rapper with Turkish origin, better known as Alpa Gun. In 2004 he got signed to Berlin label Sektenmuzik and since then a member of rap group Die Sekte.

At the beginning of his musical career, formed Sendilmen together with friends the group AK. When rapper Sido discovered him, the members of AK signed their first label contract.

It came to disputes between Sendilmen and the other members of AK, thus the group disbanded. Sendilmen signed to Sektenmuzik, where he worked together with other artists on Sampler 1. He joined rap group Die Sekte and had mainly contacts with Aggro Berlin and Bass Sultan Hengzt.

He became a good friend of Sido and repeatedly thanks him in songs and interviews for supporting him and taking him away from his criminal street life.

On the Aggro Berlin sampler Aggro Ansage Nr. 5, was he featured with a solo track titled "Alpa für Westberlin".

On May 1, 2007 presented Sendilmen on MTV Germany his first video "Ausländer", reaching place 5 of the Most Wanted charts in the Total Request Live series. The single of this song was released May 25 over Sektenmuzik. On the same day released his debut album Geladen und Entsichert.