The Western Morning News is laying the blame of euro-confusion firmly at the door of the Government.
And to back up its point the paper is conducting its own referendum on the issue, with the chance for readers to fill in a coupon to cast their vote before the poll closes at the end of this month.

A multiple sclerosis sufferer’s race to raise enough cash to continue her treatment of the controversial beta interferon drug has been boosted by readers of the Stoke Sentinel.
They have pledged £2,000 in only a week to prolong 21-year-old Claire Evans’ treatment by at least another two months.

The Express & Star’s name won’t just be emblazoned across its own fleet of vans this summer – because the masthead has been fixed to the side of a tram at the Black Country Living Museum in Wolverhampton.

The Grimsby Evening Telegraph uncovered an unusual tale involving itself – with news that the paper was on sale in the Caribbean.
Photos appeared in the Telegraph showing dozens of copies on sale at news stands in Ocho Rios, before revealing the hoax was all the work of loyal reader Raymond Ayres, who “took a few front pages everywhere [he] went on the cruise”.

Home Secretary David Blunkett has backed down on unpaid police overtime – with a police spokesman claiming it is partly due to pressure from the Bournemouth Daily Echo.
A new package was put on the table after an outcry at the original overtime plans, and a Dorset police spokesman said: “The proposals are not as horrific as we first thought and a lot of that is down to the Echo.”

A Bath Chronicle community correspondent has snapped up a taste of glory in a monthly magazine, with a photo of a fellow Army wife during a fun day at the Colerne barracks.
Celia Mannings’ picture won a competition in Soldier magazine and will go forward to the final of an Army photographic competition.

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