The Yorkshire Evening Post has reached its target of raising £2m for a local children’s hospice in just 18 months.
The A Place For Us appeal was launched to build a new stand-alone unit to treat children with terminal diseases at Martin House in Clifford. The additional unit was needed because of a dramatic increase in demand for places at the hospice since it opened.

The South Wales Evening Post has won two national print quality awards.
After winning the Printing World Awards 2002, the Evening Post also came out on top of the Northcliffe Newspapers Group’s print quality league.

The Hull Daily Mail has been praised for its fundrasing help by its former chairty of the year, the Hull and East Riding Institute for the Blind.
In its annual report the charity thanked the Mail for promoting the Buses for the Blind appeal and said it was the most successful appeals the newspaper had ever run.
More than £42,000 was raised during the time the group was the Mail’s charity of the year, reaching the target set for the minibus appeal.

A campaign by the Aberdeen Evening Express to rid the North-east of dog dirt has received a boost with the news that Aberdeenshire Council plans to provide another 200 new dog bins.
The council plans to use £20,000 of a grant from the Scottish Executive for the project.

The Lincolnshire Echo has helped a brother and sister to be finally ‘reunited’ with their long-lost grandfather more than 80 years after he died on the battlefields of France.
The Echo traced Chris Crompton and Jane Compton after being contacted by a descendent of another branch of the family, enabling the pair to see a photograph of their grandfather for the first time.

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