diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index a2afed1..3f1ac93 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@
 Roman Milner
 Dom Mitchell
 Doug Moen
+Paul Moore
 The Dragon De Monsyne
 Skip Montanaro
 James A Morrison
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3a819b8..b351711 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@
 - Fixed socket speed loss caused by use of the _socketobject wrapper class
   in socket.py.
 
+- timeit.py now checks the current directory for imports.
+
 Tools/Demos
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