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 campaign to halt the proposed expansion of Luton Airport has stepped up a gear with a visit to Westminster. Hitchin-based newspaper The Comet, handed over letters of objection from readers to Alistair Darling at the Department of Transport
The Telegraph & Argus’s Bradford Can… Cancer Research Appeal has hit its £1m target just 16 months after its launch. And by reaching £1m, another £5m of funding has been triggered from Cancer Research UK. The total was reached at
A campaign to bring different parts of the community together in a bid to regenerate Teesside has marked its first year under the initiative. The main aim of Tees Pride is to make the area a better place to live,
Fans of Bath City Football Club have been able to buy back the majority shareholding of the club thanks to a fund-raising drive backed by the Bath Chronicle. The Share in our Future campaign reached its £250,000 target after a
The mother of a six-year-old girl killed when a stolen Vauxhall Astra hit the car she was in, has penned an emotional letter to her local paper revealing how the killer driver has wrecked the lives of her family. Sharon
The East Anglian Daily Times has launched a campaign to raise £50,000 to help fund a children’s cancer nurse and a play specialist for East Anglia. The Challenging Childhood Cancer and Leukaemia – CLIC into Action – appeal will enable
An appeal launched to help raise £1m to build a new cardiac support unit has raised more than £850,000 in just 12 months, with the help of the Bolton Evening News. In February last year the newspaper joined forces with
Pub life is coming under the microscope in the west of England, where performers are queuing up to back the Western Morning News campaign to save live music. It is campaigning against the Government’s Licensing Bill, which is seen as
The Leicester Mercury has helped dozens of children in the city – by finding them a family. Over the past two years, the number of children in Leicester who have been adopted has risen from 30 to 50 bucking the
Three libraries have been saved from closure thanks to the Norwich Evening News Hands Off Our Libraries campaign. The libraries in Hingham, Brundall and Plumstead Road in Norwich were spared the axe by Norfolk County Council after the paper presented
A top NHS official made a tour of Leicester’s hospitals after the Mercury demanded to know what health secretary Alan Milburn planned to do about the beds crisis. Alan Doran, head of operations of the NHS, decided to visit the
The Newcastle Evening Chronicle is calling for the maximum sentence for death by dangerous driving to be increased so that joyriders and repeat offenders can be jailed for life. The North East newspaper has launched its Justice for Rebecca campaign
The Essex Chronicle and the Brentwood Gazette have launched joint War on Waste campaigns after the UK came bottom of the European league in recycling rates. They are hoping to highlight the growing problems of waste disposal in Essex and
The Weston and Somerset Mercury is helping two African children by paying for their education. The paper is sponsoring the children to help a local charity called The Luhimba Project. The charity was designed to help people from the small
The Eastern Daily Press is shortly to find out if it has succeeded in the first step of a bid to change the law to allow it to apply for lottery funding for the We Care appeal. Current legislation means
The Citizen has launched a campaign to sweep guns off the streets of Gloucester. It follows the release of figures that show that gun crime has risen 35 per cent nationwide in the past year, with 47 guns seized in