A special motion was passed in the Scottish Parliament about the Evening Express campaign to Ditch the Dirt and make dog owners clean up after their pets.
North East MSP Brian Adam said it showed the Aberdeen paper was in touch with its readers.

Readers were asked to cut out an article from the Express and Echo, Exeter, and send it to Westminster if they thought Government ministers were dithering on paedophile issues.
It was part of the newspaper’s Our Kids at Risk campaign to tighten loopholes in the law.

Readers, advertisers and residents of Merseyside are being asked to raise money for the Liverpool Echo’s Sunrise Fund.
Any local charity can apply to receive a grant from the fund, and the paper will adopt one each year as a major beneficiary.

A hospice charity has collected 143,000 tokens from the Leicester Mercury to romp home in first place in a contest to win a minibus.
Loros picked up the £25,000 prize after getting members and supporters to collect the tokens during a two-month period.

The number of distraction burglaries in Gloucestershire is falling – and The Citizen’s Help us Catch ‘Em has played its part.
Police say the number of offences tailed off when the campaign was at its height after peaking earlier this year.

A pair of old Army buddies were reunited thanks to the Bristol Observer putting them in touch through its “We’ll Meet Again” column.
They hadn’t seen each other for 45 years and a friend of a friend put them in touch.

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