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.
The Leicester Mercury is joining forces with Age Concern to launch a Don’t Let Them Die campaign – to try to help lower the number of elderly deaths that occur every winter. With freezing winter weather, the newspaper is urging
The Burton Mail is calling on its readers to help keep the murderer of a local woman behind bars. The campaign by the paper comes after killer David Bond’s 40-year jail sentence was slashed to 25 years, without any of
A newspaper’s Time To Pay Up campaign to name and shame people who have failed to pay fines has been met with a positive response. The Hull Daily Mail aims to help claim up to £2m in unpaid fines in
A campaign by the Bristol Observer, which calls for a new secondary school in Bradley Stoke, has gone to the heart of Government. The newspaper has been supporting South Gloucestershire Council’s controversial private finance initiative bid, and invited readers to
The Yeovil Express and its readers have helped to give Yeovil District Hospital a great Christmas present with news that the Fund A Scanner Today Appeal has smashed through its £25,000 target. The total now stands at £26,560, which will
A newspaper is backing a bid to secure a new secondary school to serve a massive housing estate in Bristol. It has printed a cut-out form for readers to sign and send to education minister Charles Clarke to back the
The Evening Post in Bristol has been praised by the region’s most senior police officer for helping reduce the city’s robbery rate by a staggering 21 per cent. Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Steve Pilkington said the paper’s hard-hitting Save
The East Anglian Daily Times has helped save a Suffolk horse stud from closure, bringing victory for its two-year campaign. The stud at Hollesley Bay Prison had been under threat of closure since early 2001 when the prison service decided
The Middlesbrough Evening Gazette is claiming victory for its Ban Young Guns campaign after tough new restrictions on air weapons were announced by the Government. The paper has been campaigning since June for a higher minimum age for gun owners
The Derby Evening Telegraph is planning to bring speeding traffic to a crawl – with bunches of flowers. As part of a campaign to cut the number of road deaths around Derbyshire, the paper has launched its Think First campaign.
A name and shame campaign is running in Medway Today and Medway Messenger this month in a joint bid with local police to crack down on drunk drivers. Last year more than 70 local drivers were convicted of festive season
A newspaper’s bold stance over the emotive issue of asylum seekers has helped bring a legal victory to a Kosovan family living in the city. The Mehmeti family first met up with the Post in February when it became clear
The Manchester Evening News is stepping up a campaign to ban over-the-counter sales of fireworks – and is pledging not to lose momentum even though another bonfire night has passed. In a comment piece describing how the chief constable is
A campaign by the Hull Daily Mail, urging the Government and BAE Systems to sign a £10bn contract, has changed focus after it emerged that the deal wouldn’t be enough to save 450 jobs in Brough. Editor John Meehan had
Businesses who clean up their act are to be rewarded with a special ‘seal of approval’, as part of an anti-litter campaign being backed by the Gloucestershire Echo. Clean-up campaigners for Don’t Rubbish Cheltenham are awarding 3,000 stickers to shops,
An Aberdeen newspaper is claiming some of the credit for slashing accident rates in the region. The Evening Express has revealed how accident rates – especially near schools – have dropped in the wake of its Protect Our Kids campaign.