Eastern Daily Press readers have sent in donations at a rate of £5,000 a day for the paper’s Sudan Baby Appeal.
A total of £50,000 has been raised which the paper says is enough to rescue almost every child from the Maygoma Institute – a baby dump in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

The Bristol Evening Post’s Lost Generation campaign has prompted North Somerset council leader Mike Roe to ask for a review of the guidelines on taking photos of children.
The campaign was started when the paper was prevented from taking photos of primary school children at an annual concert because organisers were told that parental consent was needed first.

The Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph has called on readers to raise £2,000 for a computer to help a local teenager with cerebral palsy communicate.
The appeal comes nine years after the paper helped raise £1,600 to purchase a walking frame for 14-year-old Christopher Gray.

The Hull Daily Mail has launched its A City United campaign backing the proposal to create a road tunnel and pedestrian-friendly areas in the city to solve the problems of congestion, safety and physical severance caused by a stretch of the A63.
The paper is calling for the city centre to be reunited with its historic waterfront – a link which was destroyed when the modern-day Castle Street was built in the early 1980s.

The decision to build a new £230m children’s hospital in Leeds has been hailed as a success for Yorkshire Evening Post readers.
They responded to the paper’s Give The Kids A Hospital campaign in their thousands by bombarding health secretary John Reid with coupons and petitions.

The East Anglian Daily Times is supporting a bid to restore the remains of Britain’s first operational radar station which was critical to the country’s victory in World War II.
EADT editor Terry Hunt said: “It doesn’t look much these days, but this dilapidated building at Bawdsey represents a hugely important part of our history. I urge all EADT readers, and everyone in Suffolk, to support our campaign by voting to restore this building.”

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