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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.

Bad hair day for sports writer Frannie

David Beckham eat your heart out… If you want a real haircut at an extraordinary cost look no further than Newsquest scribe Francis Ponder. Francis, a sports writer on the Colchester Evening Gazette, has just had a £725 restyle –

Press plea piles on pressure for Potters Bar public inquiry

A bid to put pressure on the Government to hold a public inquiry into the Potters Bar rail crash, launched by The Barnett Press, has attracted almost 700 supporters. The readers have signed up since the anniversary of the derailment

Editor's plea for answers over steel crisis

Following a Steel Summit where industry bosses failed to turn up, the Evening Gazette’s leader comment yesterday was aimed directly at the executives of steel giant Corus. Steve Dyson, editor of the Teesside newspaper, chaired the meeting organised after Corus

Express & Echo coughs up cash for debt-ridden club

The Exeter Express & Echo kick-started a campaign to bring the city’s debt-ridden football club from the brink of closure – by donating £1,000 to a new fund and encouraging other local businesses to follow suit. More than half the

Money give-away will help cathedral

The Coventry Evening Telegraph and the city’s cathedral have teamed up to stop a repeat of the fire that nearly destroyed it two years ago. The dramatic blaze that engulfed the modern cathedral highlighted the need for better safety. So

Forget 'trading places' it's trading maces!

The Croydon Guardian joined forces with the York Evening Press to ‘swap’ mayors for the day, in an initiative labelled Trading Maces. Both papers worked together to arrange a day out for their respective mayors on each other’s patch, giving

Countryside shows set to be saved

A Daily Post campaign to tackle regulations affecting small countryside shows in Wales has won a new victory. They were being hit by the ‘six-day rule’, a Government ruling introduced in the wake of the foot and mouth disaster which

Petition handed over to save the 'Mat'

A campaign petition from the Paisley Daily Express to save a maternity hospital from closure has been presented to health bosses. ‘The Mat’ acts as a vital service for mothers in the area and without it, women would have to

Goal! – Telegraph sparks national campaign

A groundbreaking local newspaper campaign to clean up football – starting at grassroots level – has been picked up by the national press. Where the Grimsby Telegraph led, the Daily Mirror is following, and showing its commitment to the Grimsby

Industry chiefs at steel summit hosted by Gazette

The Evening Gazette, Teesside, is holding a historic Steel Summit at Redcar Bowl on Sunday. The event has been organised following steel giant Corus’ shock announcement that it no longer needs steel produced at its Redcar works – and the

Readers help decide how to spend £1bn

The Leicester Mercury is asking its readers to decide how to spend £1bn of regeneration money. Some of the county’s finest historical treasures and former workplaces are empty and vandalised. But the Mercury is calling on residents, conservation groups and

Evening Post move prompts flying shoes invention

A project launched by the Bristol Evening Post is set to result in production of ‘flying shoes’, which will take people soaring over the city’s rooftops. Airbus will carry out the work on the shoes, which give a virtual simulation

Evening News fights for crisis-hit hospital

The Manchester Evening News is calling on the NHS to plug the £1.5m funding gap needed by the city’s Christie Hospital. Doctors have warned that without the money waiting lists for life-saving chemotherapy will have to be set up, with

Half way there for Post

A £1.5m appeal by the Yorkshire Post has reached its halfway point. The Hidden Disability campaign will raise renovation funds for the Robert Ogden School, at Thurnsloe, near Barnsley, a school for autism. The priority was to rebuild the roof,

Echo pressure brings cancer study

Shockwaves – a campaign by the Express & Echo into mobile phone mast safety has found support in the Government, with a promise to carry out research into childhood leukaemia and phone masts. Fears have been raised in Crediton, near

Sorted! Post's pressure on the council pays off

The South Wales Evening Post has triggered relief and celebration in Swansea by embarrassing the local council into a promise to finally repair 20,000 treacherous potholes. The Evening Post’s Get it Sorted campaign was launched in July 2001 to address