The Lincolnshire Echo, first published in 1893, has more than 148,000 readers each day.
Four months ago, the newspaper revealed the plight of 30-year-old mum Lyn York who had been diagnosed with cervical cancer and given just months to live.
In a moving interview she told how she wanted to devote the time she had left to giving her two young sons a set of fabulous memories.
The Echo teamed up with a local travel firm to make her dream of a family holiday in Disney World, Florida, come true. While they were away, the family’s home was redecorated, a local firm donated a car for the family to use for the next six months and £11,000 was raised to set up a trust fund for the boys.
She said: “The Echo has totally turned my life around. I never, ever thought it would get to this point.”
The paper has also run vox pops during the week with readers explaining why they wouldn’t be without the Echo.
People power, organised by the newspaper, has added weight to a campaign to dual the A46 which has seen 78 accidents and five deaths on an 11-mile stretch between 1992-1997 alone.
Construction work to widen the road is now due to begin next year.
The paper has also reminded readers of its efforts to support the county’s proud tradition as a base for ground-breaking flyers and aircraft past and present.
For more than six years the newspaper has fought to restore the historic bond between the Red Arrows aerobatics display team and its traditional home at RAF Scampton.
More recently it began campaigning to Help the Vulcan Fly Again and get one of the mighty planes back in the air on the display circuit.
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