Every day regional newspapers up and down the land go into battle on behalf of their readers. On this page you will find an archive of the hundreds of stories which HoldtheFrontPage has carried about newspapers fighting for their communities.
A newspaper has launched a sizzling campaign to give the Lincolnshire sausage protected status. The Lincolnshire Echo’s Save Our Sausages campaign is in support of local butchers who are calling for only sausages actually made in the county to have
The Evening Gazette is celebrating after helping to stop a controversial scheme to demolish Middlesbrough’s historic North Riding Infirmary. The Teesside newspaper has waged a year-long campaign against plans to tear down the former hospital to make way for a
The Greenock Telegraph has taken its fight against the proposed downgrading of a local hospital to the health bosses charged with deciding its future. The newspaper has been fighting the cuts since plans to withdraw accident and emergency and major
The Liverpool Echo has launched a troubleshooting service for readers. The Echo Action hotline was launched to help Liverpudlians with their problems. The newspaper will be publishing the details as stories and following them through until the problem is resolved.
The Glasgow Evening Times has toasted victory after its year-long campaign to save the Queen Mother’s maternity unit ended in success. A total of 156,000 readers pledged their support to the cause, which was launched on October 8 last year
Readers of the Lincolnshire Echo have gone ‘parking mad’ over price hikes in car parking charges at Lincoln County Hospital. The newspaper has been inundated with letters since new fees were introduced by the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and
The Wiltshire Times has launched a campaign to strip an Army officer of his OBE. Lt Col Giles Stibbe is to receive the honour for services in the former Yugoslavia. But the news has sparked outrage among families of three
The Evening Press in York has scored a major campaign victory with councillors set to make a spectacular turnaround over controversial parking charges. The paper launched its Stop the Highway Robbery campaign in July amid growing concern about the impact
The Bolton Evening News is calling for an end to smoking in public places in the town. The regional newspaper has launched a campaign calling for a ban on the habit in pubs, restaurants and public buildings in the area.
A Breast Cancer Appeal launched by the Eastern Daily Press has hit its £200,000 target in under a year. Generous donations included an anonymous £50,000 cheque, which propelled takings forward and contributed to an early start on the unit. EDP
The Derby Evening Telegraph has stepped up its campaign against the announced closure of 16 post offices in the city centre. The petition, Don’t rip the heart out of our community, has received front-page exposure on three occasions, in a
The Holyhead & Anglesey Mail has launched a campaign to bring the Island Games to Anglesey in 2009. The weekly paper has begun an eight-week fight called Game Mon – Mon being Welsh for Anglesey – in a bid to
The East Anglian Daily Times has claimed victory in its fight to safeguard the future of Britain’s smallest pub. At just 15ft by 7ft, the Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds was under threat of closure, after planners refused an application
The North East Manchester Advertiser is fighting to stop the deportation of an asylum-seeking journalist who fled Pakistan after uncovering government corruption. Forty-year-old Mansoor Hassan has been told that he and his family must leave the UK and return to
South Wales Evening Post readers have been praised by Welsh first minister Rhodri Morgan for raising more than £1m for the new South West Wales Cancer Centre. The paper more than doubled its original target to help fund the £12m
The last hope of saving a Somerset town’s main post office has been handed in to the Prime Minister by the editor of the local newspaper. Joanna Roughton, editor of the Somerset Standard, delivered a 700-name petition to Downing Street