Editor of the Nottingham Evening Post, Graham Glen, shows Prince Charles a board charting the progress of work at the Queen’s Medical Centre’s parents’ unit transformed through an Evening Post Community Challenge. Photo: Courtesy of Nottingham Evening Post
Local Newspaper Week has given the UK’s regional daily press a chance to blow its own trumpet.
Features have appeared throughout the week showcasing the way papers have worked with local community groups to tackle important issues and projects.
The Newspaper Society, in partnership with the Prince’s Trust, organises Local Newspaper Week. Prince Charles, a vigorous supporter of the regional press, has praised schemes like the Nottingham Evening Post’s campaign to transform a unit at the city’s Queen’s Medical Centre where parents stay with desperately sick children.
When the Evening Post announced the community project, in May 1998, Prince Charles sent a letter of support, and when the project was completed he travelled to Nottingham to open the refurbished unit and praised the Evening Post for bringing the community together to achieve an impressive result.
This week the Evening Post devoted two pages to the story of the unit and reminded readers how they had made a difference to the lives of so many families.
Editor Graham Glen said: “Very often you hear the cliche of the power of the press, and it’s a power which can be destructive – but it can be constructive too. This Post Challenge was regional newspapers at their best.”
The Evening Post also used this week to highlight how it saved lives with its Silent Killer campaign. In the last year, the newspaper believes that at least seven people have been saved through increased awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide.
The newspaper campaigned for a licensing system under which landlords could face manslaughter charges if there were fatalities caused by the gas in properties they owned. The paper also handed over 100 free carbon monoxide detectors to landlords and families.
To read what some other papers have highlighted during Local Newspaper Week, click on the links below:
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